Panocha Quartet

The Panocha Quartet is looked upon by many critics and concertgoers as the best possible Czech quartet from your latter twentieth and early twenty first centuries. And in addition, the group offers focused a lot of its interest on Czech repertory, with Dvorák, Janácek, Smetana, Martinu, as well as others frequently dominating their concert applications and recordings. But their repertory must eventually become judged as wide and including many designs and periods since it encompasses functions by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Ravel, Bartók, Shostakovich, and various other lesser-known non-Czech composers. The ensemble provides made numerous, extremely successful recordings, mainly for the Czech label Supraphon. In 1968 several four talented pupil string players on the Prague Conservatory shaped the Panocha Quartet. The name they decided to go with originates from the ensemble’s lead member, initial violinist Jiri Panocha. The group’s various other players are violinist Pavel Zejfart, violist Miroslav Sehmoutka, and cellist Jaroslav Kulhan. Normally, the Panocha Quartet sometimes expands or agreements its number to support different-sized functions, using pianists, dual bass players, harmonium players, and different various other instrumentalists. The Panocha Quartet constructed its reputation gradually in the first many years of its profession, achieving its initial significant breakthrough in 1975 on the Prague International String Quartet Competition, where in fact the group captured initial prize. Other essential honours and citations implemented quickly, like the Bordeaux Yellow metal Medal in 1976. The initial recordings began appealing to interest in the arriving years, as well as for these early initiatives the group received many awards, like the Paris-based Grand Prix Academy Charles Cros in 1983. This last mentioned honor was presented with to get a critically acclaimed Supraphon disk from the Martinu 4th and 6th quartets. In the second option decades from the twentieth hundred years and the first years of the brand new millennium, the Panocha Quartet concertized busily, planing a trip to celebrations and concert halls throughout European countries, Israel, Japan, Australia, and several exotic locales, aswell. During that period the quartet also produced a lot more than 15 trips of america and Canada. Furthermore, the Panocha players were able to build up a big discography for the Supraphon label, including a routine from the Dvorák quartets (and also other works to create in the Czech master’s total chamber result) that lots of critics consider definitive. Additional studio attempts included the 2004 launch from the Fibich Piano Quartet, Op. 11, as well as the Quintet, Op. 42, with visitor performers Marian Lapsansky (piano), Ludmila Peterkova (clarinet), and Vladimira Klanska (French horn).