Pavel Haas Quartet

Elements of Moravian folksong combine with edgy modernism in the String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15, written six years before Pavel Haas was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Pavel Haas Quartet, champion of the Czech composer’s music since its formation in 2002, places the work together with the yearning sounds of ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’, by Haas’s teacher, Leoš Janáček. It is joined by two close colleagues in Dvořák’s folk-infused String Sextet for two violins, two violas and two cellos.

Pavel Haas              String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15

Leoš Janáček          String Quartet No. 1 ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’

Antonín  Dvořák      String Sextet in A Op. 48