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	Wihan Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Since winning the London International String Quartet Competition in 1991, and a number of other major chamber music competitions, the Wihan Quartet has developed an impressive international career with regular visits to the US and Japan and to major festivals and concert halls throughout Europe.
		The Quartet was formed in 1985, and is still made up of the original four members.
		The Quartet has an outstanding reputation for the interpretation of its native Czech repertoire as well as for the many classical, romantic and modern masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire.
	www.wihanquartet.com (141 words)

	Four's a crowd \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Lurking behind the first question is an idealistic vision of a quartet as a non-stop idyll of glorious music-making with your friends, a working life as fulfilled and perfect as the Beethoven quartets we play.
		For example, the aptly named Bohemian Quartet were somewhat inconvenienced when their violist, Oskar Nedbal, ran off with the first violinist's wife in 1906 just before a visit to Britain.
		Many quartets today try to reduce the inevitable intensity of their existence by restricting their group's season and encouraging one another to engage in different aspects of musical life.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1123933,00.html (1377 words)

	Max Reger: String Quartet & Clarinet Quintet
		The string quartet was an ideal form for Reger, the relatively uncluttered textures and the varied voices of the strings keep the polyphony from getting overcrowded in one register.
		It was written for the Bohemian String Quartet shortly after they joined Reger in a performance of Brahms' Piano Quintet (however, the first performance was given by the Frankfurt String Quartet on 27 June 1909).
		The Bohemian String Quartet stressed the equal partnership of all players, standard practice nowadays, but something of a radical break from the tradition of the quartet acting "as a foil for the dominant first violinist, such as had been the case above all in the Joachim Quartet," to quote Carl Flesch.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Reger.html (526 words)

	The 92nd Street Y hosts the Tokyo String Quartet (10.25.03)
		This season, the Quartet examines "Schubert's Bohemian Roots" with special guests Joel Quarrington (bass) in October, Jon Kimura Parker (piano) and Timothy Eddy (cello) in February and countertenor Bejun Mehta in March.
		With the Tokyo Quartet's residency this season, the Y formalizes what has been a longstanding relationship with the ensemble, which began more than 20 years ago and has continued through many performances in the Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall.
		The members of the Quartet have served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music since 1976 as quartet-in-residence, devoting a considerable amount of time to teaching young musicians at Yale during the academic year and at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in the summer.
	www.92y.org /content/tokyo_string_quartet_october_2003.asp (1546 words)

	Janácek Quartet. The complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- Apr 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With the Smetana Quartet in the Mendelssohn Octet and Eva Bernáthová in the Brahms and Dvořák Piano Quintets
		From the days of the Bohemian Quartet and their slightly younger rivals the Sevcik-Lhotsy in the 1920s the discography has been immeasurably enriched by characterful and evocative performances nurtured in the finest conservatories of central Europe.
		Janáček had a very compelling tonality and an unassailably direct musicality: they were a magnificently “equalized” quartet, with scrupulous care paid to inner voicings and weight of tone as well more obviously to the collective blend.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classRev/2003/Apr03/Janacek_Quartet.htm (1000 words)

	A&L Performing Arts News Release - Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet
		Their distinguished interpretations of the standard classical and romantic works are coupled with a strong commitment to broadening the piano quartet repertory with major commissions.
		A lush, passionate work, the E-flat major quartet is typical of Schumann’s music in that it serves as an expression of his most intimate thoughts and feelings.
		This performance by the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet is part of a tour that includes a concert in the Coleman Chamber Music series at CalTech in Pasadena on Sunday, January 23.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/1999-2000/pr/berlin.htm (601 words)

	Jazz Concert Details @ jazzreview.com - Your jazz source for the best jazz music reviews, jazz history, jazz festivals, ...
		After the riots of 1968 Bohemian Caverns experienced several decades of decaying vacancy until it was purchased by Al Afshar in 1997.
		The current structure is an expanded, state-of-the-art facility consisting of the elegantly adorned Bohemian Caverns Restaurant (main level), The Caverns Jazz Lounge (basement level) and Club 2001 Nightclub (2nd and 3rd levels).
		Bohemian Caverns is located at the corner of 11th and U Streets, NW.
	www.jazzreview.com /concertinfo.cfm?ID=928 (467 words)

	Bohemian Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bohemian Quartet (known as the Czech Quartet after 1918) were an Czech string quartet that was founded in 1891.
		Many key contemporary works were written for and/or first performed by the Bohemian Quartet.
		Most notably, this included works by Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček, such as Janáček's second string quartet, subtitled "Intimate Letters".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bohemian_Quartet (143 words)

	washingtonpost.com: PERFORMING ARTS
		Rounding out the bohemian bachelor quartet were Morris Robinson as Colline and Markus Beam as Schaunard.
		The members of the Ontario band were the stars of a five-act bill at the 9:30 club Saturday night, and though their sound was appropriate, their tendency to fall back on heavy metal cliche kept the hour-plus set from ever transcending another night of ho-hum headbanging.
		Of course it wasn't the ghastly performance gags that brought W.A.S.P. to the attention of Gore and her Parents Music Resource Center -- Lawless is as responsible as any rocker for the evolution of parental advisory stickers on CDs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33191-2004Aug1?language=printer (1628 words)

	Chamber Music 78rpm Records - Auction Number 139
		Quartet in D – Notturno (Borodin) / Quartet in D – Scherzo – Allegro non tanto e con fuoco (Tchaikowsky).
		Quartet in a, Op.51, #2 – Andante moderato (Brahms). 12” AC blue Eng. Col. L1520,
		LÉNER STRING QUARTET : Quartet in e – Scherzo (Mendelssohn) / Quartet in A – Adagio molto (Schumann).
	www.norpete.com /auctions/auction-03.htm (2115 words)

	MUSIC REVIEW; Tradition Burnished By a Czech Quartet - New York Times
		They are continuing the long history of Central European quartet playing, a fact they duly recognize in taking their name from Hanus Wihan, who founded the Bohemian Quartet a century ago.
		These players have very little use for the nods and glances that many quartets use to communicate as much with their audiences as with one another.
		The program, which included early Schubert (the E flat quartet D.87) and ended with a dazzling and funny arrangement of Paganini's 24th Caprice by a certain Zinn, was recorded for broadcast on WNYC.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E3DC153AF930A2575BC0A96E958260 (441 words)

	Liner Notes, Vol.1, 1996
		In 1923 the Bohemian Quartet, led by the famous violinist Joseph Suk (1874-1935), requested Janacek to compose two string quartets for them.
		The husband contemplates his dead wife and, in a majestic passage that represents a dramatic catharsis, experiences an awakening: "For the first time I saw a human being in her." As do Janacek's operas, the work concludes with human dignity restored to both the victim and the penitent.
		Janacek's second string quartet (1928) was inspired by his long and spiritual friendship with the beautiful Kamila Stosslova, a married woman 40 years his junior.
	arizonachambermusic.org /96notes1.htm (1267 words)

	DTR9501 The Wister Quartet (CD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Devich's arrangement was published in 1987 and in recent seasons has figured frequently in the concerts by The Wister Quartet.
		The Wister Quartet gives more than 50 appearances each season in the Eastern United States in addition to their other professional activities.
		The Wister Quartet surmounts the extraordinary technical challenges in Devich's transcription in a reading notable for its furious rhythmic drive and fiercely concentrated playing.
	www.dtrmusic.com /9501CD.HTM (369 words)

	Music & Nightlife in Santa Rosa, CA \| Music Profile \| Charlie Haden
		When Charlie Haden takes the stage this Saturday with his Quartet West at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, he'll pick up his upright bass like he has countless times before and focus on the same goal that has propelled his performances all of his life.
		As a key member of Ornette Coleman's historic early '60s quartet, which turned the jazz world on its ear with shocking, free-form playing that came to be described as "the new thing," his strong, resonant bass melodies were like hidden gems underneath Coleman's wild, piercing improvisations.
		The Quartet West, now in their 20th year, showcase a classic bop-era aesthetic, and their evocation of a bygone jazz-noir era has often been dubbed "nostalgia," a tag that Haden insists misses the point.
	www.metroactive.com /bohemian/06.07.06/charlie-haden-0623.html (731 words)

	www.myspace.com/bohemianquartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She is a member of the Hartford Festival Orchestra and the gypsy band, the Bohemian Quartet.
		The Bohemian Quartet is a four-piece string-band composed of a violin,a cello, a gypsy guitar, and an upright bass.
		It is sometimes difficult to tell if a tune is GYPSY or not for the simple reason that as the ROMANY musicians moved to the country they would make their homeland, they picked-up the local tunes and performed those with their personal and unique touch.
	www.myspace.com /bohemianquartet (564 words)

	INKPOT CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: DVORAK String Quartets Nos.13 & 12 "American". Vlach Quartet Prague (Naxos)
		It was in this conducive environment that he composed the F major quartet in a short period of time, and played through it with the Kovariks.
		The Vlach Quartet Prague initially called themselves the New Vlach Quartet, the first violin Jana Vlachova being the daughter of Josef Vlach, the leader of the original ensemble.
		Any quartet performing these works must be alert enough to bring out the latent Romanticism in them.
	www.inkpot.com /classical/dvoraksq.html (781 words)

	The Music Chamber - Dvorák String Quartet in F, op.96 "American"
		It was also during this time that he composed some of his best known and most loved works; these include the "New World" Symphony, the Cello Concerto, and this quartet in F major, also called the "American" quartet.
		There is a common misconception that Dvorak based the quartet's themes on African spirituals that he encountered while in America.
		It is easy to hear why some think that the quartet is based on American folk melodies: the main theme of each movement is in the distinctive mode of F-G-A-C-D.
	library.thinkquest.org /27110/noframes/repertoire/dvorakop96.html (363 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Philip notes that in a 1912 performance the great Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe “sways either side of the beat, while the piano maintains an even rhythm.” In disks by the Bohemian Quartet, he says, “each player is functioning as an individual,” reacting with seeming spontaneity to the personalities of the others.
		Edward Elgar’s recordings of his Second Symphony and Cello Concerto, from 1927 and 1928, respectively, are practically explosive in impact, destroying all stereotypes of the composer as a staid Victorian gentleman.
		All those lost tics and traits—swaying on either side of the beat, sliding between notes, breaking chords into arpeggios, members of a quartet going every which way—are alike in bringing out the distinct voices of the players, not to mention the mere fact that they are fallible humans.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/050606crat_atlarge (4215 words)

	Classical Chamber Music Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Wihan Quartet has an outstanding reputation for the interpretation of its native Czech repertoire as well as for the many classical, romantic and modern masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire.
		We are fortunate that they have made time in their 2007 UK schedule of concerts of piano quintets with pianist Martin Kasik, to perform for HCCS two of the best-loved Czech string quartets, as well as Beethoven's Op.130: – one of the highest peaks in the string quartet repertoire.
		With their unique and spellbinding sound, the Wihan Quartet has developed an impressive international career with regular visits to the U.S. and Japan and to major festivals and concert halls throughout Europe.
	www.chamberconcert.co.uk /feb07.html (193 words)

	Josef Suk String Quartet No.1, Op.11
		Suk played second violin with the Quartet for most of his life.
		His First String Quartet dates from 1896 and while one hears echoes of Dvorak in the opening Allegro moderato, structurally, the working out of the themes in very unconventional and the use of the instruments to create polyphonic effects is well beyond Dvorak's own writing.
		This is a first rate string quartet which deserves to be heard in concert and is highly recommended to professionals looking for a post-Dvorak work with some Czech modernism in it.
	www.editionsilvertrust.com /suk-string-quartet-1.htm (304 words)

	JANACEK: String Quartet No. 1 “The Kreutzer Sonata;” String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Pages;” SCHULHOFF: String ...
		It was the aging Leos Janacek’s ardor for Kamila Stoesslova which inspired his two string quartets; the First in 1923, the Second in 1928.
		The Second Quartet, composed in the white-hot inspiration of three weeks, is a testament to Janacek’s unrequited yearning for Kamila, a nervous melancholy marked by the tight, stinted use of intervals which only cede harmonic space in the passionate final Allegro.
		The level of part writing is intensely demanding: Janacek conceived his masterpieces for the Bohemian Quartet, the same ensemble whom conductor Vaclav Talich took as his model for the Czech Philharmonic sound.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1406 (603 words)

	String quartet No. 2 (Janáček) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leoš Janáček's String Quartet No. 2 was written in 1928.
		The "Intimate Letters" quartet was the second to be composed after a request from the Bohemian Quartet who, in 1923, requested Janáček to compose two string quartets for them.
		Unusually for a classical work, the nickname "Intimate Letters" ("Listy důvěrné" in Czech) was given by the composer, as it was inspired by his long and spiritual friendship with Kamila Stosslova, a married woman 40 years his junior.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/String_quartet_No._2_(Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek) (264 words)

	Classical Net - Master Review Index by Composer - Martinů
		Quartet for Strings #1 by Martinů Quartet - Naxos 8.553782 (RS)
		Quartet for Strings #2 by Martinů Quartet - Naxos 8.553782 (RS)
		Quartet for Strings #3 by Martinů Quartet - Naxos 8.553783 (RS)
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/master/martinu.html (628 words)

	Musical Pointers
		The Wihan Quartet from Prague is currently sharing their vast experience with students and music lovers in Greenwich as String Quartet in Residence at Trinity College of Music.
		People used to see these late Beethoven quartets as Everests of the repertoire, to be approached but never fully mastered; the Griller Quartet (leaders when I was young) worked together for twenty years before they felt themselves ready to tackle them!
		And in the middle of the 20th C there was usually a feeling of striving for the (nearly) unattainable, which players and audiences shared at live performances.
	www.musicalpointers.co.uk /reviews/liveevents/WihanNov04.htm (450 words)

	Bohemian Strings - String Quartet & String Arrangements Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bohemian Strings - String Quartet & String Arrangements Ireland
		To be able to hear downloaded music files, you need the MP3 player which is free to download.
		We offer also String Quartet, Duo or String Chamber Orchestra.
	www.czechstrings.com /sounds.htm (112 words)

	Czechs in History - 07-02-2001 - Radio Prague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Bohemian Quartet kept Josef Suk busy right up until the beginning of the First World War, when travelling possibilities naturally became restricted.
		While in the Bohemian Quartet, Josef Suk did not have a great deal of time for composition, but his early pieces showed a romantic quality that was very popular.
		Shortly after the birth of the Czechoslovak nation, Suk fell victim to a campaign launched by Professor Zdenek Nejedly, who believed that composers such as Dvorak and Suk were not true Czechs.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/11890 (990 words)

	Severin EISENBERGER
		Other main performers who comprised this aesthetic were Bronislaw Huberman, the Bohemian Quartet, Vaclav Talich and Ignaz Friedman.
		Eisenberger was present at the three evenings given in Berlin by Busoni in 1902: his 2nd concert was all Chopin, comprising the 2nd Sonata, all 24 Etudes and the A flat Polonaise.
		He heard the Bohemian Quartet in 1908 play Rachmaninoff's Trio Elegiaque with the composer himself at the piano.
	www.arbiterrecords.com /musicresourcecenter/eisenberger.html (1735 words)

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