Bohuslav Martinu wrote his String Quartet No. 6 in New York in 1946 while recovering from a serious accident. It was a period during which he privately viewed the developments and growing political tensions in his home country with increasing concern. Musically, the Quartet marks a large step on the path that Martinu described as “geometry evolving into imagination”. It is characterized by an almost uninterrupted use of continuous variation, restless harmonic development, pulsating short rhythms...