DVOŘÁK: STRING QUINTET OP.97 AND SEXTET OP.48

Joined by Veronika Hagen and Gary Hoffman, the Jerusalem Quartet releases two of Dvorak’s favorite chamber works

  • Antonín Dvořák, String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48

  • Antonín Dvořák, String Quintet in Eb Major Op.97

With:
Veronika Hagen, viola
Gary Hoffman, cello

Harmonia Mundi
January, 2018
Catalog Num: HMM902320

 

 

The Jerusalem Quartet explores two aspects of Dvořák’s chamber music:
one of the first big successes in the genre of a Bohemian composer who now enjoyed a well-established reputation in Europe (op. 48) and one of the masterpieces from the years of American exile that brought him worldwide fame (op. 97). A chance to discover two places, two periods, but always the same depth of expression in this indefatigable composer endowed with remarkable creative faculties