科瓦洛維奇: 弦樂四重奏全集(第1-3號) 史塔米克四重奏 Stamic Quartet / Kovarovic: The Complete String Quartets

科瓦洛維奇: 弦樂四重奏全集(第1-3號) 

史塔米克弦樂四重奏

 

史塔米克四重奏演奏的曲目範圍涵蓋從巴洛克到21世紀音樂(例如2012年在Supraphon廠牌出版, 備受讚譽的索菲亞．古拜杜麗娜弦樂四重奏全集, SU4078), 但這四重奏主要是專注於19世紀末到20世紀初的作品. 在啟示性全球首錄的佛斯特(Josef Bohuslav Foerster)弦樂四重奏全集後(2010年, SU4050), 現在他們又帶來另一個引人注目的錄音專案. 科瓦洛維奇(Karel Kovarovic 1862-1920)主要是因為在布拉格國家劇院擔任歌劇公司總監和指揮而為人所知, 但他的音樂作品卻被普遍的被忽略了. 雖然如此, 他還是寫過幾齣歌劇, 芭蕾舞劇, 配樂, 歌曲, 合唱和室內樂作品. 史塔米克四重奏的新專輯第一次錄製了他的從未發行過的弦樂四重奏. 其中最傑出的是呈獻給德佛札克的A小調第二號弦樂四重奏, 1888年在布拉格首演, 六年後在維也納金色大廳演出(Musikverein in Vienna). 科瓦洛維奇很可能是因為他同時兼任指揮和在國家劇院的新工作責任而太過忙碌的因素, 並未能完成他的第三號弦樂四重奏. 這張史塔米克四重奏的新專輯是用來證明科瓦洛維奇的四重奏值得比過去一個世紀以來獲得更多的關注.

 

Stamic Quartet

 

The Stamic Quartet's repertoire ranges from Baroque to 21st-century music (the highly acclaimed album of Sofia Gubaidulina's complete quartets, Supraphon 2012), yet the ensemble mainly focus on works dating from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Following the revelatory premiere recording of Josef Bohuslav Foerster's quartets (Supraphon, 2010), they have now come up with another striking project. Karel Kovarovic (1862-1920) is primarily known for his work as the director of the opera company of the National Theatre in Prague, as well as a conductor, while his own music has been generally overlooked. Nevertheless, Kovarovic wrote several operas, ballet and incidental music, songs, choral and chamber pieces. The Stamic Quartet has made the very first recording of his string quartets, which are yet to be published. The most remarkable of them is String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, dedicated to Antonín Dvorak, which six years after its premiere in Prague (1888) was performed at the Musikverein in Vienna. Kovarovic did not finish his String Quartet No. 3, most likely owing to his being extremely busy as a conductor and his new responsibilities at the National Theatre. The new album made by the Stamic Quartet serves to prove that Kovarovic's quartets deserve to be paid much greater attention to than has been the case over the past century.

 

Karel Kovarovic's string quartets - an extraordinary discovery more than a century after they were created.