HAYDN
Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2
SCHUMANN
Quartet in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3.
DVORAK
Quartet in C Major, Op. 61
Founded in 1998 in Prague, the Bennewitz Quartet immediately caught the imagination of the musical world. Besides being Laureate of the Chamber Music Society of the Czech Philharmonic, the group won the award of the Spanish Queen for best chamber music ensemble of 2002/2003, as well as two special prizes at the prestigious ARD Music Competition in 2004. They soon won two leading chamber music competitions--the Osaka in 2005 and the Borciani in 2008, and recently were nominated for the Boreletti-Buitoni Trust award.
Since then they have performed at such prestigious festivals as Lucerne, Lockenhaus, Orlando and Prague and in leading concert halls: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Theatre des Champs- Elysees, Herkulessaal Munich, Rudolfium Prague, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikverein, Seoul Arts Center, the Frick Collection and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. They have performed at the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and took part in the complete Haydn cycle at Wigmore Hall.
Beyond the classical canon, the Bennewitz champions Czech music, including works by unjustly neglected composers such as Reicha, Haas, Ullmann and Schulhoff. The group was quartet-in-residence at the Musikakademie Basel and, since 2017, has been the ensemble-in-residence for the Czech Philharmonic, performing Prague's main hall, the Dvorak Hall.
Their CDs are critically lauded; Klassik.com described their recording of Schumann string quartets as "simply phenomenal." In 2019 the quartet was awarded the Classic Prague Award for the Best Chamber Music Recording, for their live performances at the Rudolfinum. The recently released recording of the music of Ullmann, Schulhoff, Krasa and Haas was named Editor's Choice by Presto Classical and was selected as Record of the Week by Europadisc.
Besides CDs, the Bennewitz Quartet has recorded prolifically for Czech radio and television, as well as for such radio and television companies as SWR, RD and NWR in Germany, Radio 4 in the Netherlands, ORF in Austria, Radio Clasica in Spain and Yomiuiri TV in Japan.
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Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2
SCHUMANN
Quartet in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3.
DVORAK
Quartet in C Major, Op. 61
Founded in 1998 in Prague, the Bennewitz Quartet immediately caught the imagination of the musical world. Besides being Laureate of the Chamber Music Society of the Czech Philharmonic, the group won the award of the Spanish Queen for best chamber music ensemble of 2002/2003, as well as two special prizes at the prestigious ARD Music Competition in 2004. They soon won two leading chamber music competitions--the Osaka in 2005 and the Borciani in 2008, and recently were nominated for the Boreletti-Buitoni Trust award.
Since then they have performed at such prestigious festivals as Lucerne, Lockenhaus, Orlando and Prague and in leading concert halls: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Theatre des Champs- Elysees, Herkulessaal Munich, Rudolfium Prague, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikverein, Seoul Arts Center, the Frick Collection and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. They have performed at the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and took part in the complete Haydn cycle at Wigmore Hall.
Beyond the classical canon, the Bennewitz champions Czech music, including works by unjustly neglected composers such as Reicha, Haas, Ullmann and Schulhoff. The group was quartet-in-residence at the Musikakademie Basel and, since 2017, has been the ensemble-in-residence for the Czech Philharmonic, performing Prague's main hall, the Dvorak Hall.
Their CDs are critically lauded; Klassik.com described their recording of Schumann string quartets as "simply phenomenal." In 2019 the quartet was awarded the Classic Prague Award for the Best Chamber Music Recording, for their live performances at the Rudolfinum. The recently released recording of the music of Ullmann, Schulhoff, Krasa and Haas was named Editor's Choice by Presto Classical and was selected as Record of the Week by Europadisc.
Besides CDs, the Bennewitz Quartet has recorded prolifically for Czech radio and television, as well as for such radio and television companies as SWR, RD and NWR in Germany, Radio 4 in the Netherlands, ORF in Austria, Radio Clasica in Spain and Yomiuiri TV in Japan.
HAYDN
Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2
SCHUMANN
Quartet in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3.
DVORAK
Quartet in C Major, Op. 61
Founded in 1998 in Prague, the Bennewitz Quartet immediately caught the imagination of the musical world. Besides being Laureate of the Chamber Music Society of the Czech Philharmonic, the group won the award of the Spanish Queen for best chamber music ensemble of 2002/2003, as well as two special prizes at the prestigious ARD Music Competition in 2004. They soon won two leading chamber music competitions--the Osaka in 2005 and the Borciani in 2008, and recently were nominated for the Boreletti-Buitoni Trust award.
Since then they have performed at such prestigious festivals as Lucerne, Lockenhaus, Orlando and Prague and in leading concert halls: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Theatre des Champs- Elysees, Herkulessaal Munich, Rudolfium Prague, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikverein, Seoul Arts Center, the Frick Collection and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. They have performed at the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and took part in the complete Haydn cycle at Wigmore Hall.
Beyond the classical canon, the Bennewitz champions Czech music, including works by unjustly neglected composers such as Reicha, Haas, Ullmann and Schulhoff. The group was quartet-in-residence at the Musikakademie Basel and, since 2017, has been the ensemble-in-residence for the Czech Philharmonic, performing Prague's main hall, the Dvorak Hall.
Their CDs are critically lauded; Klassik.com described their recording of Schumann string quartets as "simply phenomenal." In 2019 the quartet was awarded the Classic Prague Award for the Best Chamber Music Recording, for their live performances at the Rudolfinum. The recently released recording of the music of Ullmann, Schulhoff, Krasa and Haas was named Editor's Choice by Presto Classical and was selected as Record of the Week by Europadisc.
Besides CDs, the Bennewitz Quartet has recorded prolifically for Czech radio and television, as well as for such radio and television companies as SWR, RD and NWR in Germany, Radio 4 in the Netherlands, ORF in Austria, Radio Clasica in Spain and Yomiuiri TV in Japan.
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Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2
SCHUMANN
Quartet in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3.
DVORAK
Quartet in C Major, Op. 61
Founded in 1998 in Prague, the Bennewitz Quartet immediately caught the imagination of the musical world. Besides being Laureate of the Chamber Music Society of the Czech Philharmonic, the group won the award of the Spanish Queen for best chamber music ensemble of 2002/2003, as well as two special prizes at the prestigious ARD Music Competition in 2004. They soon won two leading chamber music competitions--the Osaka in 2005 and the Borciani in 2008, and recently were nominated for the Boreletti-Buitoni Trust award.
Since then they have performed at such prestigious festivals as Lucerne, Lockenhaus, Orlando and Prague and in leading concert halls: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Theatre des Champs- Elysees, Herkulessaal Munich, Rudolfium Prague, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikverein, Seoul Arts Center, the Frick Collection and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. They have performed at the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and took part in the complete Haydn cycle at Wigmore Hall.
Beyond the classical canon, the Bennewitz champions Czech music, including works by unjustly neglected composers such as Reicha, Haas, Ullmann and Schulhoff. The group was quartet-in-residence at the Musikakademie Basel and, since 2017, has been the ensemble-in-residence for the Czech Philharmonic, performing Prague's main hall, the Dvorak Hall.
Their CDs are critically lauded; Klassik.com described their recording of Schumann string quartets as "simply phenomenal." In 2019 the quartet was awarded the Classic Prague Award for the Best Chamber Music Recording, for their live performances at the Rudolfinum. The recently released recording of the music of Ullmann, Schulhoff, Krasa and Haas was named Editor's Choice by Presto Classical and was selected as Record of the Week by Europadisc.
Besides CDs, the Bennewitz Quartet has recorded prolifically for Czech radio and television, as well as for such radio and television companies as SWR, RD and NWR in Germany, Radio 4 in the Netherlands, ORF in Austria, Radio Clasica in Spain and Yomiuiri TV in Japan.
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