Hass Pavel

Czech Music for Strings

“The Janacek Chamber Orchestra is 11 or 12 players strong, but sounds larger. It produces a rich tone, with evident enthusiasm for the varied textures that all the composers require in different ways; and their idiomatic style, especially in the Jan…

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20th century Hass Pavel Janáček Leoš Szymanowski Karol

Szymanowski, Janacek, Haas: String Quartets arranged for String Orchestra

You have to know how to pick 'em. String quartets transcribed for string orchestra aren't exactly the rarity they used to be, either on disc or in concert, but most of them (starting with Mahler) focus on the chestnuts of the classical perio…

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