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The Talich Quartet has been evolving as part of a prestigious line of musicians for nearly fifty years, representing Czech musical art throughout the world. 

With its legendary name, the latest generation of the Talich Quartet has been performing as a more youthful ensemble since 1998, led by Jan Talich Jr., who took over the reins from his father and is surrounded by talented musicians.They are already paving the legendary string quartet’s future, which draws on tradition and always has. 

In fifty years, the Talich Quartet has forged a style, approach and philosophy of music that the new members will carry on and make flourish. They see this as an opportunity and a challenge. They have deftly found the same lightness of tone, spontaneous expression, unpredictable accents and innate sense of popular allusion of their elders. 

The gradual change of quartet members has sometimes been a painful one, but today the Talich have imposed a style all their own.

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Recorded by Dantzig String Quartet in Schiermonnikoog (18. 03. 2013)

Edvard Grieg - String quartet no. 1 op. 27 (1st movement)

Julian Kuerti conducts the NEC Philharmonia in a performance of Berlioz's Le carnaval romain Overture, Op. 9. Recorded live in Jordan Hall October 23, 2013 by Alex Hug.

Berlioz: Le carnaval romain Overture, Op. 9

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We Should Feel Like We Are In Love

'Tolerance' Out Now
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Friends since kindergarten, the members of Incan Abraham (Giuliano Pizzulo, Teddy Cafaro, Spencer Mandel) channel their fingerpainted past in their debut LP, fusing Lost Boys tribal energy with guitar, synth, and harmony vocal soundscapes that arc and circle like bikes in desert washes. After spending college marooned on opposite coasts, the friends reunited on a whim in a secluded house in upstate New York for a weekend that turned into a month spent writing music and contemplating their shared histories of childhood escapism and pop nostalgia.

Returning to their native Los Angeles, they seasoned their sound in the arid air and eclectic east side music scene, until a fateful encounter with their producer-to-be and sonic sherpa Lewis Pesacov (Best Coast, FIDLAR, Fool's Gold). The resulting album "Tolerance" will be released on April 8th on White Iris Records.

Produced by Lewis Pesacov at The Sound Factory in Hollywood, CA.
Engineered by Clinton Welander. 
Mixed by Nicolas Vernhes at Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, NY.

More at http://incanabraham.com

ON TOUR IN JUNE!
6/1   San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
6/3   San Fran, CA @ Neck of the Woods
6/4   Reno, NV @ Jub Jubs Thirst Parlor
6/6   Boise, ID @ The Crux
6/8   Denver, CO @ Lost Lake
6/9   Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
6/10 Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
6/11 Chicago, IL @ Elbo Room
6/12 Pittsburgh, PA @ The Smiling Moose
6/14 Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands 
6/15 Brooklyn, NY @ Cameo Gallery w. White Rabbits
6/16 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
6/17 Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
6/19 Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade
6/22 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
6/23 New Orleans, LA @ Circle Bar
6/24 Dallas, TX @ Crown & Harp
6/26 Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room & Garage
6/28 Phoenix, AZ @ Last Exit

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Incan Abraham "Concorde"

String quartet no.12 in F major, op.96, ‘American’
String quintet in e flat major, op.97
JIRI ZIGMUND, viola


Talich’s readings bristle with life, tempos are marginally faster than usual, and ensemble is razor-sharp, rhythmically buoyant, and richly detailed. The players manage to deliver tonal beauty, an abundance of detail, lively phrasing, and a strong sense of structure to the work, qualities not always easy to reconcile. La Dolce Volta provides engineering to match the performances: warm, vibrant, with a you-are-there presence. 

For this pairing the Talich reigns supreme!


DVOŘÁK, String quartet no.12 in F major, op.96, ‘american’ (Molto vivace)

Balkan/Klezmer influenced composition from the album Rust, released in 2010 at Kakafon Records, with the trio Kaja.

Tiergarten (by Livet Nord 2009)

Hugh Wolff conducts the New England Conservatory Philharmonia and student soloist Hannah Choi in Barber's Concerto for Violin. Recorded live November 4, 2010 at NEC's Jordan Hall.
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Barber: Concerto for Violin  Op. 14 - Allegro

My Valentine, taken from Paul's forthcoming album which is due out February 6th / 7th. 

Kisses On The Bottom

My Valentine

Paul Laraia play Bartok Viola Concerto movement I.  

Bartok Viola Concerto Mov. I

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Overexposed

Daylight

From the Debut Album 'Recycled Soul'. Get the album and join our email list for special offers from www.theaprilmaze.com

Oh Yesterday (Wisdom Teeth)

Dvorak - 'The American' Quartet, Lento

David Bowie - Heroes

Janáček's First String Quartet is one of the summits of his art. But it was equalled, and possibly surpassed, by the second. At 74, he was still full of vitality and the joy of living. In 1928, the year of his death, in love more than ever with Kamila, he wrote his last and greatest masterpiece.
His two quartets are declarations: love of life, love of a woman. The intensity of the feelings summoned here can only be expressed by extra-verbals means, in a paroxysm of sound: "You know", wrote Janáček to Kamila, "sometimes the feelings are in themselves so strong that the notes conceal behind them an escape".

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Janáček, String Quartet No.2,  Intimate Letters  - Allegro

The Bohemian Quartet asked Janáček to write a string quartet for them. He had not yet seriously approached the genre, or at least, not since his years of training in Vienna, around 1880. It was his memories of Tolstoy's famous short novel "The Kreutzer Sonata" that inspired the composition. In eight days he composed this quartet in praise of woman and love, thus opposing the moral sanction raised by Tolstoy himself against the adulterous woman in his novel. In his works Janáček often shows compassion for women who are ridiculed and humiliated. Here, to bring out the raw passions that are present in the novel he uses the art of contrast and harmonic tension in gripping and anguished phrases. Through the voice of each instrument, his writing follows closely the murmurs and complaints, violence and terror experienced by the characters, thus creating a wordless drama.

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Janáček, String Quartet No.1 "The Kreutzer Sonata"  - Adagio, con moto

This work has nothing of the classical divertissement, but is rather a deeply romantic piece, although its texture does not renounce long developments or phrases or phrases irregular in rhythm and mood. It was later nicknamed the "Frühlingssextet" (Spring Sextet), obviously in tribute to Beethoven. Its elegance, subtlety and apparent naturalness conceal the difficulties the young Brahms experienced in writing this piece and which led him to ask Joachim to check the manuscript. The violinist suggested several important changes and Brahms followed his shrewd advice.

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Brahms, String Sextet No.1 in B flat major Op.18 - Andante, ma moderato

Spilville is a small town in Iowa. It was there, between 8 and 23 June 1893, that Dvořák composed his most famous chamber work, the String Quartet in F major (the "American").
Dvořák expressed his nostalgia in the great works he composed from 1892 to 1895, including the String Quintet Op.97.

Dvořák, String Quartet No.12 in F major "American" Op.96 - Allegro ma non troppo

Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) is one of those unfortunate composers whose major works are obscured by the celebrity of their first performances. He composed, in the last years of his life (between 1876 and 1883), two masterpieces: two string quartets which are as unclassifiable as Beethoven’s last quartets. But this is the only similarity, because whereas for Beethoven the gradual onset of this deafness meant that he was no longer encumbered by sound and could turn his deafness to his advantage in writing music in total freedom, Smetana, who was brutally struck by deafness during the night of 19 to 20 October 1874, turned back on himself. From then on and more relentlessly than ever before, he went in quest of his own roots.

The first quartet, ‘From my Life’, in E minor, tells a story. But it is far from being descriptive music. The writing is of extraordinary richness and vivacity. The first chord is certainly one of the most pathos-laden moments in music since the first seven bars of Schumann’s Scenes from Faust. Smetana, a great admirer of Chopin, was inspired by folk music without ever copying it. The quartet is a discreet summary of his life in four movements. It represents youth, with its enthusiasms, its adventures and its hopes but with a premonition of tragic events. The second (Allegro a la polka) is freedom from care and the dance, the deep heart of Bohemia. The third movement is a song of love to his adored wife. And the final movement is all happiness, then, in a single chord, deafness strikes like an axe into a tree trunk.

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Smetana - String Quartet No.1 in E minor "From my life" - Allegro vivo appassionato

Trio3 spelar Claude Debussy Pianotrio i G-dur i Södra Vi kyrka 2012.08.12

Trio3 - Debussy Trio i G-dur sats 3

Soyoung Yoon's debut album, released in 2012, contains recordings of two of most famous works for violin. The violin concerto in d minor, Op 47 of Jean Sibelius and well as Piotr Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major, Op 35. 
Th CD-album has been nominated to the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) 2013.

01 Sibelius_ Violin Concerto In D Minor, Op.47 - 1. Allegro Moderato.mp3

04 Tchaikovsky_ Violin Concerto In D, Op.35 - 1. Allegro Moderato.mp3

Hugh Wolff conducts the NEC Philharmonia and soloist Steven Laraia in a performance of Walton's Concert for Viola. Recorded live March 11, 2013 in Jordan Hall, Boston

Walton: Concerto for Viola - Andante comodo

Walton: Concerto for Viola - Vivo  con molto preciso

Walton: Concerto for Viola - Allegro moderato

Anova String Quartet:

Wojciech Sablik, Dawid Fabisiak - violin
Jędrzej Kaczmarek - viola
Katarzyna Aleszczyk - cello

Music engineering - Michał Garstecki, FreeFly Studio ((www.freeflymusic.com), Poznań 2012,  photos by Krzysztof Czechowski (www.krzysztofczechowski.pl)

Anova Quartet - A. Dvorak, American Quartet op. 96 - II movement

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