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Oct-Nov, 2010
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Prazak Quartet performs Smetana's String Quartet No. 2
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Prazak Quartet Goes Hollywood
The Prazak Quartet is heard during a key scene in the Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio thriller Shutter Island . Specifically, an excerpt from their recording of Mahler's piano quartet is playing on a gramophone in the psychiatrist's office and DiCaprio's character identifies it as Mahler. This triggers a flashback sequence where he kills a Nazi who has the same piece playing in his office while the troops storm in. So while brief, their “appearance” is actually woven into the story, and not simply background music.
The Prazak Quartet will return to North America in Fall 2010 and Spring 2011.
Press Highlights
“Definitive may be the most overused adjective in the critic's vocabulary, but no other single word more aptly describes the achievement by this superb foursome.” — Chicago Tribune
“A tone that was warm and shapely yet sufficiently crystalline to allow the textures and individual lines to be savored. It was the kind of virtuosity that does not call attention to itself, but leaves a listener feeling secure that the music is in capable hands….A hotblooded, richly textured reading.”
— The New York Times“Performed with mastery and the freedom that comes with deep identification with the music….the members perform rhapsodically and flamboyantly but in absolutely effortless synchronicity with one another” — Philadelphia Inquirer
“A vivid and moving experience….an exceptional evening of music-making.”
— The Dallas Morning News