Details

It was these letters between himself and Kamila that Janácek enshrined in his Intimate Letters Quartet, which is at the heart of the Emerson Quartet's second concert in this series. So passionate were Janácek's feelings that he said the work had been written 'in fire', whereas earlier pieces were 'written only in hot ash.' The work is heard alongside two of Dvorák's Late Quartets, in the last of which Dvorák anticipates Janácek's style with his innovative approach to rhythm.