Quartet in G, Op. 106
played by The Menges String Quartet:
Isolde Menges (violin)
Beatrice Carrelle (violin)
John Yewe Dyer (viola)
Ivor James (cello)

Dvorak began the G major Quartet in 1895 soon after his return from America. He was overjoyed at finding himself once more amid familiar scenes, and his joy found full expression in two magnificent quartets, this one and that in A flat, Op. 105. 'These quartets', writes Ottokar Sourek, 'are the swan songs of Dvorak's chamber music, which reaches its zenith in these two compositions... The first two movements of the G major Quartet belong to the greatest things which ever came from Dvorak's pen'.