FLAC (tracks) | Classical | Label: SUPRAPHON a.s.| 01:05:37 | 1CD | 309 MbThe composers whose music is featured on the present album lived and worked in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, and their fates were afflicted by the monstrous Nazi regime.

Viktor Ullmann, who before WWII held the post of Kapellmeister at the New German Theatre, wrote Quartet no.

3 while he was detained at the Theresienstadt ghetto-camp.

Hans Krása completed the Theme and Variations in 1936, yet he only saw it performed in Theresienstadt, along with his children’s opera Brundibár.

Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces reveal his zest for rhythm and dance, as well as his evidently having been inspired by the music of the Viennese salons, Italy and Spain.

Pavel Haas’s Quartet no.

2, dating from 1925, serves as vivid proof of the claim that the composer was the most gifted pupil of Leoš Janáček.

Tracklist:01. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46: No. 1, Allegro moderato02. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46: No. 2, Presto03. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46: No. 3, Largo04. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46: No. 4, Allegro vivace e ritmico05. Theme and Variations for String Quartet06. Five Pieces for String Quartet: I. Alla valse viennese07. Five Pieces for String Quartet: II. Alla serenata08. Five Pieces for String Quartet: III. Alla Czeca09. Five Pieces for String Quartet: IV. Alla tango milonga10. Five Pieces for String Quartet: V. Alla tarantella11. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7: I. Landscape. Andante12. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7: II. Coach, Coachman and Horse. Andante13. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7: III. The Moon and I. Largo e misterioso14. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7: IV. Wild Night. Vivace e con fuoco