Love and Death
The Navarra Quartet present an “imaginary dialogue” on the theme of love and death, with exquisite miniatures by György Kurtág interspersed between longer works. Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” is inspired by Tolstoy’s dark story of jealous love, while Puccini’s Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) evokes an Italian funeral. Joaquín Turina’s The Bullfighter’s Prayer depicts a bullfighter contemplating his mortality. The album culminates in Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” Quartet.
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