Moyzes Quartet / Mucha Quartet | Slovenská filharmónia

Moyzes Quartet Mucha Quartet
Grażyna Bacewicz Ernő Dohnányi Witold Lutosławski Hans Koessler	Quartet for 4 Violins String Sextet B flat major, 3^rd version Four Silesian Melodies for 4 violins String Sextet F minor
Violinists of both ensembles reached for compositions for 4 violins written by Polish authors: Grażyna Bacewicz, today a classic of the 20^th century music, and Witold Lutosławski, the founder of a new compositional poetics of the 20^th century music. String sextets were written by authors connected namely with Budapest, Ernő Dohnányi and Hans Koessler – the cousin of Max Reger. Both sextets are ambitious projects. June of this year was extremely successful for Mucha Quartet: the quartet won Antonín Dvořák Chamber Music Competition in Prague and it was awarded the second prize and prize of the public at the 10^th Premio Paolo Borciani in Italy.