The Mornings of the National / Lucile Dollat

Who was Dvořák thinking of when he enriched the traditional string quartet with a double bass? Mozart and his A Little Night Music ? Or the Bohemian orchestras, itinerant from village to village? It is true that his Second String Quintet , full of the scent of the Czech land, has no equal, with its limping dumka rhythm and the elegy of the Poco Andante . Nothing comes close either to the Bagatelles for two violins and cello, to which the somewhat...