String Quartet

Central and North European Composers

Béla Bártok - String Quartet No. 4 in C major (1928)
Allegro
Prestissimo, con sordino
Non troppo lento
Allegretto pizzicato
Allegro molto
Finale: Vivace
Takács Quartet
Edward Dusinberre, first violin
Károly Schranz, second violin
Roger Tapping, viola
András Fejér, cello
Live Recording - Sala São Paulo = São Paulo - Brazil - August 04 2015
Illustration - Paul Klee

Béla Bártok - String Quartet No. 4 - Takács Quartet - São Paulo - 2015

Antonín Dvořák - IV. Finale: vivace ma non troppo, from String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, "American Quartet"
Violins - Rommel Fernandes, Pablo de León
Viola - Horácio Schaefer
Cello - Roberto Ring
Live recording - Teatro Castro Mendes, Campinas SP, Brazil. August 16, 2019
Illustration - Martin Lewis

Antonín Dvořák - Finale from String Quartet No. 12 "American" - Campinas - 2019

Bela Bartok - Bluebeard's Castle (1918)
Bluebeard - Arizer Csaba
Judith - Éva Marton
Conductor - Gabor Ötvos
Orquestra do Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
Live recording - Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro - October 23 1996
Illustration - Ligeti Antal and Wágner Sándor

Béla Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle  - Live - Éva Marton - Rio - 1996

Antonín Dvořák - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53. (1879)
Allegro ma non troppo (A minor)
Adagio ma non troppo (F major)
Finale: Allegro giocoso ma non troppo (A major)
Soloist - Saschko Gawriloff
Conductor - Roberto Minczuk
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
Live - Sala São Paulo, São Paulo - September 16 2000
Illustration - Alphons Mucha

Antonín Dvořák - Violin Concerto - Live  - Gawriloff- Minczuk - São Paulo - 2000

Antonín Dvořák - Serenade for wind instruments, cello and double bass in D minor, op.  44 (1878)
1. Moderato quasi marcia
2. Menuetto. Tempo di minuetto
3. Andante con moto
4. Finale. Allegro molto
Aylton Escobar - Conductor
Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Campinas
Live recording - Centro de Convivência - Campinas SP - May 13  2001
Illustration - Jean Siméon Chardin

Antonín Dvořák - Serenade for Wind Instruments - - Live - Aylton Escobar - Campinas -2001

Ástor Piazzolla - Adiós Nonino (Farewell, Granddaddy) (1959),
Quarteto Amazônia
Claudio Cruz - violin
Igor Sarudiansky - violin
Horácio Schaeffer - Viola
Alceu Reis - cello
Live recording - Sala São Paulo - São Paulo - Brazil - July 20, 2002
Illustration - Emilio Pettoruti

Astor Piazzola - Adiós Nonino - Live - Quarteto Amazônia - São Paulo 2002

Antonín Dvořák  - Carnival - Concert Overture (Karneval, koncertní ouvertura), op. 92 (1891)
Conductor - Eduardo Ostergren
Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Campinas
Live recording - Centro de Convivência, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil - August 11, 2002
Illustration - Alphons Mucha

Antonín Dvořák  - Carnival Overture - Ostergren - Sinfônica de Campinas - 2002

Alexander von Zemlinsky - String Quartet No.1 in A Major, Op.4 (1896)
Allegro
Scherzo (allegretto)
Breit und kräftig
Vivace
Pražák Quartet
Václav Remeš, violin 
Vlastimil Holek, violin
Josef Klusoň, viola
Michal Kaňka, cello
Live Recording - Espaço Cultural BankBoston, São Paulo, Brazil - June 8, 2004
Illustration - Jorge

Alexander von Zemlinsky - String Quartet No.1 - Live - Pražák Quartet - São Paulo - 2004

Leoš Janáček - String Quartet No. 2 - "Intimate Letters" (1928)
Andante - Con moto - Allegro
Adagio - Vivace
Moderato - Andante - Adagio
Allegro - Andante - Adagio
Pražák Quartet
Václav Remeš, violin
Vlastimil Holek, violin
Josef Klusoň, viola
Michal Kaňka, cello
Live Recording - Espaço Cultural BankBoston, São Paulo, Brazil - June 8, 2004
Illustration - Johannes Vermeer

Leoš Janáček - String Quartet No. 2 - "Intimate Letters" -  Live - Pražák Quartet - São Paulo - 2004

Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61, B. 121 (1881)
Allegro
Poco adagio e molto cantabile
Allegro vivo
Finale. Vivace
Pražák Quartet
Václav Remeš, violin
Vlastimil Holek, violin
Josef Klusoň, viola
Michal Kaňka, cello
Live Recording - Espaço Cultural BankBoston, São Paulo, Brazil - June 8, 2004
illustration - Alfons Mucha

Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet No. 11 -  - Live - Pražák Quartet - São Paulo - 2004

Bedřich Smetana -  Allegro moderato (second movement)  from String Quartet No. 2 in D minor (1883)
Pražák Quartet
Václav Remeš, violin
Vlastimil Holek, violin
Josef Klusoň, viola
Michal Kaňka, cello
Live Recording - Espaço Cultural BankBoston, São Paulo, Brazil - June 8, 2004
Illustration - František Kupka

Béla Bártok - String Quartet No. 4 - Takács Quartet - São Paulo - 2015

Jorge Coli