Streichquartette Entartete Kunst Krasa / Krenek / Tansman Gramola 99109 Adamas String Quartet Claudia Schwarzl, Roland Herret, violin Anna Dekan, viola Jakob Gisler, cello 1.09.2016
Hans Krása : Streichquartett op. 2 (1921)
1	1. Moderato	6:23
2	2. Prestissimo - Molto calmo - Volgare	5:36
3	3. Molto lento e tranquillo	7:44
Alexandre Tansman : Triptyque (1930)
4	1. Allegro risoluto	3:48
5	2. Andante	4:44
6	3. Finale	7:11
Ernst Krenek : Streichquartett Nr. 5 op. 65 (1930)
7	1. Sonate. Allegro, molto deciso…	10:14
8	2. Thema und Variationen	19:34
9	3. Phantasie. Adagio	14:27

A great concern for the Austrian Adamas String Quartet has always been the treatment of composers whose works were termed 'degenerate' and banned during the Nazi regime or who themselves became victims of the barbaric extermination machinery.
On their second album, the critically acclaimed ensemble devotes itself to the string quartet (1921) by the Czech composer Hans Krasa, a work showing an astounding compositional maturity - despite being only his second published piece.
In contrast to Krasa who was later murdered in Auschwitz, Alexandre Tansmann was able to exile to the U.S. in 1940, ten years after composing Triptyche for string quartet.
Ernst Krenek, later as well being forced to migrate, also published his Neoromantic-oriented String Quartet No. 5 Op. 65 in the year 1930.