Radio 3 in Concert: Pavel Haas Quartet - Live from Wigmore Hall: Stravinsky, Ravel, Dvorak

From Wigmore Hall in 2017, the Pavel Haas Quartet play music by Stravinsky, Ravel and Dvorak. The Pavel Haas Quartet have won many awards for their recordings of the music of Smetana and Janacek. They are joined by viola player Pavel Nikl for more music from their Czech homeland. And they pair this with a classic of the French repertoire. Presented by Martin Handley. Stravinsky: Concertino for string quartet. Ravel: String Quartet in F major. Interval music: Andras Schiff plays movements from Janacek's On an overgrown path. Dvo?ák: String Quintet in E flat major, Op 97. Pavel Haas Quartet, Pavel Nikl (viola). Written in 1920 to enliven the famous Flonzaley Quartet's repertoire, Stravinsky's brief Concertino revels in the contrasts and tension between two different scales. It prefaces the Pavel Haas Quartet's exploration of Ravel's String Quartet in F, an emblem of poise and playfulness, and Dvo?ák's sonorous viola quintet, written in the summer of 1893 in Spillville, Iowa