Martinů Quartet
Lubomír Havlák / 1st violin
Libor Kaňka / 2nd violin
Zbyněk Paďourek / viola
Jitka Vlašánková / cello
Program:
Ervín Schulhoff: 5 Pieces for string quartet Op. 46
Bohuslav Martinů: String Quartet No. 7 „Concerto da camera“ H 314
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 10 E flat major Op. 74 “Harp”
Three works influenced by internal problems of their authors will be performed in the suggestive environs of the medieval fortified church: Ervín Schulhoff needed to come to terms with the public taste of the 1920s which had been subverted by the war, Bohuslav Martinů with his decision to return home from America come what may and Beethoven with his romantic disappointment and with Napoleon’s occupation of his beloved Vienna.
