String Quartets At Lso St Luke's [Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert]

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0120160315The Skampa Quartet play music from their Czech homeland at LSO St Luke's in London. Smetana's first string quartet evokes happy memories from his youth and the terrible onset of his later deafness, while Janacek's first quartet is inspired by Tolstoy's short story of an oppressed wife murdered by her jealous husband. The Skampas will be back tomorrow with another Czech programme including Janacek's second quartet.

Smetana: String Quartet No 1 (From My Life)

Janacek: String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)

Skampa Quartet.

The Skampa Quartet in Smetana's String Quartet No 1 and Janacek's String Quartet No 1.

0220160316The Skampa Quartet play music from their Czech homeland at LSO St Luke's in London. The spirit of Czech nationalism underpins Josef Suk's Meditation, and the Skampa Quartet's founder violinist Pavel Fischer channels Moravian folk music in his first string quartet. Janacek's second is a deeply autobiographical evocation of his unrequited love for a much younger woman.

Suk: Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn (St Wenceslas)

Janacek: String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)

Pavel Fischer: String Quartet No 1 (Moravia)

Skampa Quartet.

The Skampa Quartet performs music by Suk, Janacek and Pavel Fischer.

0320160317This week's string quartet series from LSO St Luke's in London continues with the Carducci Quartet playing music that's particularly close to their hearts: Shostakovich's Tenth Quartet and Piano Quintet - for which they're joined by Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin.

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 10

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor

Carducci Quartet,

Denis Kozhukhin (piano).

The Carducci Quartet plays Shostakovich: String Quartet No 10; Piano Quintet in G minor.

0420160318The Royal String Quartet and cellist Guy Johnston in Schubert's String Quintet in C, D956.