Leos Janacek: Youth - Die Jugend: String Quartet: Instrumental Work

Bearbeitung für Streichquartett-This piece reflects Janácek s memories of childhood and youth in his native Hukvaldy and the Augustinian Abbey in Brno. Kry tof Maratka a Czech composer resident in France and a great admirer of Janácek has arranged the original version to produce a welcome addition to the string quartet repertoire.Youth for wind sextet is a masterpiece from Janácek s late period (1924). Maratka has successfully managed to transform the concise winds sound that give this work its unique flavour into the timbre of the strings thereby creating a third string quartet of the composer.- Janácek s wind sextet arranged for string quartet- Welcome addition to thestring quartet repertoire- Foreword by the arranger (Cz/Eng/Ger)- Set of parts (BA11543) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP521) available for sale