Janáček & Haas: String Quartets

The Escher Quartet brings incisive playing and passion to three 20th-century Czech string quartets: two about the obsessive and dangerous power of love (Janáček), the third a cinematic portrait of the wild Moravian hills (Haas). Both works are highly descriptive and deliciously unpredictable in their use of harmony and melody. This is an album to stir the senses, and handsomely rewards repeated listening.