《记事本-爱默生弦乐四重奏》When the Emerson String Quartet releases an album, one s expectation of excellence isn t met it s exceeded. The Emersons exploration of Czech chamber music on this new recording further burnishes a lustrous reputation. The Emersons perform at a superior level of intensity, integrity, energy, and commitment demonstrated since its formation in 1976. It now brings these qualities to the first two of Janácek s String Quartets and 3 Madrigals for violin and viola by Martinu. Intimate Letters (Quartet no. 2) is based on Janácek s letters to his muse, Kamila Stösslová. We are the fortunate beneficiaries of Janácek s unrequited passion! This passionate piece also plays a key role in the Daniel-Day Lewis film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

01 String Quartet No.1 - 1. Adagio - Con moto
02 String Quartet No.1 - 2. Con moto
03 String Quartet No.1 - 3. Con moto - Vivo - Andante
04 String Quartet No.1 - 4. Con moto (Adagio) - Più mosso
05 Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola Op.H 313 - I. Poco allegro
06 Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola Op.H 313 - II. Poco andante
07 Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola Op.H 313 - III. Allegro
08 String Quartet No.2 - 1. Andante
09 String Quartet No.2 - 2. Adagio
10 String Quartet No.2 - 3. Moderato
11 String Quartet No.2 - 4. Allegro

COMPOSER: Alban Berg (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Violin Concerto (Berg). Violin Concerto (Janacek). Violin Concerto (Hartmann).
ORCHESTRA: Philharmonia Orchestra and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
CONDUCTOR: Heinz Holliger
ARTISTS: Thomas Zehetmair
Penguin Guide 3 star 'Zehetmair plays with great sensitivity and a natural eloquence, and many will prefer this to Mutter on DG…Zehetmair's less sensational reading brings one closer to the heart of this poignant music'
Berg，Alban 贝尔格，阿尔班(1885—1935) 奥地利作曲家。出身于维也纳的一个有教养的家庭。早年即显示作曲天才。1904至1910年从勋伯格学习时，受到赏识。勋伯格对于贝尔格有深远的影响，在贝尔格的无调性音乐、序列主义音乐，以及捍卫勋伯格音乐的文章中最为明显。第一部歌剧《沃采克》(1917—1921)为自由的无调性作品，确立了他的声誉。此后不久即采用十二音体系，在《小提琴协奏曲》(1935)和未完成的歌剧《璐璐》(1929—1935，取材于韦德金德的戏剧)中用得颇有特色。
贝尔格创作时进度缓慢，考虑周密，感觉灵敏。为数不多的作品显示出其智慧过人，技巧精湛，想象力丰富亲切，胜过老师。是勋伯格的最富于浪漫色彩的弟子。也是才华横溢、诚挚热情的教师。
主要作品有：
(1)歌剧：《沃采克》(1921)；《璐璐》(1929—1935)。
(2)管弦乐曲：管弦乐曲三首；钢琴、小提琴及十三件乐器的室内协奏曲；小提琴协奏曲。
(3)室内乐：弦乐四重奏；《抒情组曲》(弦乐四重奏)。
(4)钢琴：奏鸣曲。
并作有歌曲多首，由钢琴或乐队伴奏。
贝尔格的小提琴协奏曲为20世纪最重要的协奏曲之一，题词为“纪念一位安琪儿”；指马勒的遗孀之女，十九岁的玛农·格罗皮乌斯。协奏曲共分两个乐章，第一乐章描绘女郎温柔的性格；第二乐章以“灾难与决心”为标题，是一个狂烈的快板，继以基于巴赫一首众赞歌的柔板。这是贝尔格的最后一部作品，生前未能听到它的演出。 （来自网络）
雅纳切克的《小提琴协奏曲》，标题为《灵魂的彷徨》(Pilgrimage of the Soul)，作于1927-1928年。
哈特曼(Karl Amadeus Hartmann,1905-1963)，德国作曲家。哈特曼1923-1927年就学于慕尼黑音乐学院，后成为过韦伯恩的学生。因反对纳粹统治，曾有一段时间中断音乐活动，1945年后在慕尼黑组织“活的音乐会”，其创作体现出布鲁克纳、贝尔格、斯特拉文斯基等多人创作的影响。
哈特曼为小提琴和弦乐队而作的《葬礼协奏曲》(Concerto funebre)作于1939年。
（林逸聪：《音乐圣经》）

The acclaimed Jerusalem Quartet's latest release focuses works by two giants of Czech music. Though Smetana, the founder of the Czech national school, and Janacek, his spiritual heir, are best known as operatic composers, they also left strongly autobiographical chamber works. Composed when he was already profoundly deaf, Smetana's String Quartet No.1 looks back over the different stages of his life. Also written late in life, Janacek's second quartet, subtitled Intimate Letters, describes his unfulfilled passion for Kamila Stosslova, his junior by 38 years.

Bartok: Violin Sonata No. 1; Janacek: Sonata; Messiaen: Theme and Variations Gidon Kremer, violin; Martha Argerich, piano. Deutsche Grammophon 427 351-2; CD.
Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich are ideal partners in this program of forceful, searching and variably acidic early 20th-century works. The collaboration works especially well in Bartok's First Sonata (1921); this reading in many ways outshines that of an earlier pair of stars, David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter. With their characteristic flexibility, Mr. Kremer and Ms. Argerich capture the near hysteria of the work's first movement, the uneasily subdued passions of the second and the throaty vehemence of the finale. And they convey that broad emotional range with coherence and unity of purpose.
The Janacek Sonata (1914-21) also benefits from an unusually intense reading; indeed, some listeners may find this account overwrought and too emotionally draining.
The aphoristic Messiaen Variations (1932) are little more than a filler, but an illuminating one. They share the Bartok's dark atmosphere and the Janacek's melodic inventiveness, with a touch of Debussian harmonic mistiness in which one hears the roots of Mr. Messiaen's later style.

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