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1. String quartet in E flat, Op.51 (1878/79)
2. String quartet in A flat, Op.105 (1895)
On this CD:
  1. String Quartet No. 10 in E flat
    Composed by Antonín Dvorák
    Performed by Alban Berg Quartet

  2. String Quartet No. 14 in A flat
    Composed by Antonín Dvorák
    Performed by Alban Berg Quartet

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Forget the Hovis advert for a minute. Dvorák's Ninth Symphony is a very fine work, no question about that, but his quartets have equal claims on the affections of listeners, and it seems one of the greater injustices of music history that out of his 14, only the "American" has gained any real profile. Perhaps Liszt and Wagner are partly to blame: Dvorák was writing at a time when the string-quartet medium was seen as somewhat outmoded: the future lay, so the propaganda went, in big orchestral tone poems and music dramas. Not so, as these two quartets, superbly recorded by the Alban Berg Quartet in 1999, demonstrate. In both readings tension and drama are at the forefront: while they revel in the melodies, there's never an undue slackening of the pulse that gives life to these pieces. Having said that, there's certainly no suggestion of strait-lacedness about these interpretations (try the Vivace of the second movement of the E flat Quartet, which contrasts so effectively with the melancholy first theme). The A flat Quartet finds a supercharged Alban Berg sounding almost orchestral at the climaxes--sample the Allegro appassionato of the first movement or the irresistible finale. The sound is good, with a remarkably quiet audience (were they gagged?) who only make their presence felt in the applause following each quartet. --Harriet Smith

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