Hans Krása
Passacaglia und Fuge for string trio (1944)
Anton Arenski
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor for violin, viola and two celli (1894)
Bohuslav Martinů
Sextett for two violins, two violas, two celli (1932)
- Juta Õunapuu-Mocanita Violin
- Anna Isabel Haakh Violin
- Annegret Klingel Viola
- Vincent Royer Viola
- Johannes Nauber Violoncello
- Sylvia Borg-Bujanowski Violoncello
Tchaikovsky was a legend – and Anton Arensky acknowledged his much-admired role model by quoting one of Tchaikovsky’s »Songs for Children«. Unusually, his quartet deploys two celli, which underline the solemn basic mood. They are also deployed in Bohuslav Martinů’s snappy sextet, energetically leading us from darkness into light. Passacaglia and Fugue is the last work of the Czech composer Hans Kràsa, composed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp shortly before he was deported and murdered. Music transcends reality.
