New Philharmonic Quartet - Peter Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3

Tchaikovsky�s three quartets were written during one five year period, a time of rapid growth and maturing of his talent and creativity. Just as he pointed out in one of his newspaper reviews to the love and attention which Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven had lavished on this �modest form of music, which, in the narrow confines of four bowed instruments, provides for the richest development of musical ideas,� Tchaikovsky�s own approach to chamber music was similarly serious and profound. His quartets combine the exquisite, refined sonorities of an ensemble with truly symphonic development and an amazingly warm and accessible musical language.