Dvořák: String Quartets Vol. 2

The Vogler Quartet & Dvořák Vol. 2 »The Vogler Quartet quests for fullness of sound, crisp rhythmic delineation, and warm, earthy colors. An all-around successful inauguration of this complete edition.« This is what FonoForum wrote of Vol. 1 of our edition featuring Antonín Dvořák's complete quartets, and Vol. 2 with a further selection from the Cypresses, the Quartet No. 4, and the two late Quartets opp. 105 and 106 again displays this ensemble's high musical culture. This culture combines in a very characteristic manner the capability to engender maximal transparency and to engage in profound probing of work structures and in recent years has brought the Vogler Quartet an international reputation and an appointment to a professorship in chamber music at the Stuttgart College of Music, succeeding the Melos Quartet. Of the quartets recorded here, Dvořák's late String Quartet in G major merits special mention; he himself wrote that the themes had rarely »so exemplarily and literally flowed [to him]« as in this work: »When our dear God prepares the food so palatably, then one need only stretch out one's hands and enjoy. I am very content with everything that I have achieved in this quartet.«