Kapralova String quartet

Rita Chepurchenko violin - Simona Hurnikova violin
Svetlana Jahodova viola - Margit Klepacova cello

• Haydn Quartet Op 76 No 2 Fifths
• Kapralova Quartet Op 8 (1936)
• Dvorak Quartet Op 96 American

This was the UK debut of the Prague-based Quartet originally formed in 1955 as the Venus Quartet. It has now taken on the name of the composer Vitezslava Kapralova, who died in southwest France in June 1940 as the German army swept through France. Born in 1915, she conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London in 1938 in her prize-winning Military Sinfonietta. Those who have heard her music agree that, had she lived, the name of Kapralova would have been very well known in the music world.           More...

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