Pavel Haas Quartet

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Reaching the end of our dedicated time and we would like to bring to your attention the fact that Pavel Haas Quartet picked up a prestigious gramophone award for the album Martinu String Quartets.

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Years back we decided to play Martinus quartets.

So from the very beginning, we had the chance to play in UK and we're still there.

Of course, this is one of the most important, let's say, territories for us.

What's next for the Pavel Haas Quartet?

Concerts, of course, but next album maybe.

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Czechia's Pavel Haas Quartet has won a Gramophone Award for its album of Bohuslav Martinů's string quartets.

And later, photographer Tomáš Němec looks back on his time photographing Václav Havel.

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[classical music] Last week, the Pavel Haas Quartet picked up a Gramophone Award for the album Martinu String Quartets, number two, three, five, and seven.

It is by no means the first Gramophone prize for the Prague-based classical ensemble, who BBC Music Magazine named one of the 10 greatest string quartets of all time.

Of course, we'll never know.

Third recommendation is the Pavel Haas Quartet from Prague, on the Superfon label, recorded in 2013, and they paired it with Schubert's String Quintet.

This is the most ferocious of these three performances.

They attack the outer movements hard, these very little vibrato in places, and the finale really does sound like a dance that you can't stop.

Which is sponsored by a London venue famous for chamber music, Wigmore Hall.

Which was an extraordinary recording of the Martinu String Quartets, Numbers Two, Three, Five, and Seven by the Pavel Haas Quartet, and that's on the Supraphon label.

Hattie, do you want to tell us a few words about why you feel that really stood out?

Yes, I was really excited to see Martinu triumph here because his str- his string quartet writing is so fascinating, but also his chamber music in general is something that I've been really excited by for a long time.

And I feel like Martinu's one of those composers that gives you more the more you listen to him.

I mean, he wrote seven quartets.

He was himself a violinist, and these, you know, v- the interpretation that the Pavel Haas Quartet gives us, it really-- they really understand that Martinu needs so much energy and excitement, a bit like Shostakovich.

But at the same time, if you don't pay attention to the sort of forensic tuning, it can sound very scrappy.