Quartet in G, Op. 106 played by the Menges String Quartet 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 — in A flat. Op. 105, and in G, Op. 106. ' These quartets ', writes Ottokar Sourek , are the swan songs of Dvorak's chamber music, which reaches its ' zenith in these two compositions. Dvorak's artistic nature is manifest here in all its purity and individuality..... The first two movements of the G major Quartet belong to the greatest things which ever came from Dvorak's/ pen.'