哈斯/烏爾曼/舒霍夫/柯瑞沙: 弦樂四重奏作品集 貝內維茲四重奏 Bennewitz Quartet / Ullmann - Krasa - Schulhoff - Haas

哈斯 / 柯瑞沙 / 烏爾曼 / 舒霍夫:弦樂作品集 
貝內維茲四重奏

Bennewitz Quartet

The composers whose music is featured on the present album lived and worked in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, and their fates were afflicted by the monstrous Nazi regime. Viktor Ullmann, who before WWII held the post of Kapellmeister at the New German Theatre, wrote Quartet No. 3 while he was detained at the Theresienstadt ghetto-camp. Hans Krasa completed the Theme and Variations in 1936, yet he only saw it performed in Theresienstadt, along with his children's opera Brundibar. Erwin Schulhoff's Five Pieces reveal his zest for rhythm and dance, as well as his evidently having been inspired by the music of the Viennese salons, Italy and Spain. Pavel Haas's Quartet No. 2, dating from 1925, serves as vivid proof of the claim that the composer was the most gifted pupil of Leos Janacek. In October 1944, Haas, Ullmann and Krasa were among the thousands of Theresienstadt prisoners transported to Auschwitz, where they would be murdered in the gas chambers.

The Bennewitz Quartet launched their international career following their victories at the prestigious competition in Osaka (2005) and the Premio Paolo Borciani in Italy (2008). Ever since they have regularly performed at the world's most prominent venues (Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Theâtre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, concert halls in New York, Seoul, etc.) and festivals (Salzburger Festspiele, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, etc.). The music of the Theresienstadt composers has found in them splendid performers.


The music of the Theresienstadt composers, taken on by the Bennewitz Quartet: a truly congenial association