Pražák String Quartet of Prague
Jana Vonášková and Marie Magdalena Fuxová violins
Josef Klusoň viola, Pavel Jonáš Krejčí cello
Suk Meditation
Janáček Quartet No 1 ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’
Karel Janovický Quartet No 4 (UK première)
Dvořák Quartet in G Op 106
The Pražák Quartet was our first casualty of the lockdown back in March 2020 and so we are delighted to welcome them again, bringing a totally Czech programme to build on their triumphant success here in the 2018 Leamington Music Festival.
Concert generously supported by the Low-Beer Trust
CANCELLED!!
Jana Vonášková and Vlastimil Holek violins, Josef Klusoň viola, Michal Kaňka cello
Haydn Quartet in F Op 77 No 2
Dvořák Quartettsatz in F B120
Karel Janovický Quartet No 4 (UK première)
Dvořák Quartet in G Op 106
The Pražák Quartet, last here for two very well received concerts in the 2018 Leamington Music Festival, returns with a sole movement of a quartet by Dvořák as well as his penultimate. Leamington salutes Karel Janovický in his ninetieth year with the UK première of his latest quartet; he has lived in London for many years and also been with the Dvořák Society to some of our festivals.
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The final concert in the Investec International String Quartet Season
Jana Vonášková and Vlastimil Holek violins
Josef Kluson viola
Michal Kanka cello
Suk Quartet No 1 in B flat Op 11
Smetana Quartet No 2 in D minor
Dvořák Quartet No 10 in E flat Op 51
In the first of four lunchtime concerts, the Pražák Quartet’s second concert in the Festival offers three late Romantic quartets written in a period of just over thirty years; the Dvorak in 1878-9, the Smetana in 1883 and the Suk in 1911. It promises to be fascinating and some aperitif!
Jana Vonášková and Vlastimil Holek violins
Josef Kluson viola
Michal Kanka cello
Suk Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale ‘Saint Wenceslas’ Op 35a
Smetana Quartet No 1 in E minor
Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Op 81
This leading Czech Quartet performs in Leamington for the first time, but the new leader, Jana Vonášková, has played in the Royal Pump Rooms several times in duos and a piano trio. The Pražák is joined by Ivan Klánský of the Guarneri Piano Trio for Antonin Dvorak’s popular Piano Quintet and the programme starts with an important work by his son in law Josef Suk, followed by the extra-ordinary first of the two quartets by Bedřich Smetana, regarded as the founder of Czech music.
Concert generously supported by Hugh Beale
The concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3