The Fibonacci Quartet consists of:

• Luna De Mol and Kryštof Kohout, violin
• Ami-Louise Johnsson, viola
• Kosta Popović, cello

Programme:

Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet Nr. 2 in D minor

• Allegro
• Allegro moderato
• Allegro non più moderato, ma agitato e con fuoco
• Presto

Leoš Janáček’s: String Quartet Nr. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”

• Adagio – Con moto
• Con moto
• Con moto – Vivo – Andante
• Con moto – (Adagio) – Più mosso

Josef Suk: Meditation on the old Czech Chorale “Saint-Wenceslas” Op. 35a

Leoš Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”, was written in a very short space of time, between 13 and 28 October 1923, at a time of great creative concentration. The work was revised by the composer in the autograph from 30 October to 7 November 1923.

The composition was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata. (The novella was in turn inspired by Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9, known as the “Kreutzer Sonata” from the name of its dedicatee, Rodolphe Kreutzer.)

“I was imagining a poor woman, tormented and run down, just like the one the Russian writer Tolstoy describes in his Kreutzer Sonata“, Janáček confided in one of his letters to his young friend Kamila Stösslová. In the music of the quartet is depicted psychological drama containing moments of conflict as well as emotional outbursts, passionate work rush towards catharsis and to final climax.