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Schubert's String Quartet No.14 in D minor brings together two of the composer's extraordinary talents. Schubert had a natural instinct for melody and song. His 600 Lieder (songs) and his song cycles ...
The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès. By Joshua Barone The group returned to Zankel Hall ...
Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert The group returned to Zankel Hall for the latest installment of its “Doppelgänger” project, featuring a premiere by Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
Between the Schubert works and contrasting with them, was a string quartet by Thorvaldsdottir, a contemporary Icelandic composer whose work is being heavily featured this summer at the Festival of ...
It is quite unlike the string arrangements of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet by Mahler and of late Beethoven quartets by various hands. This transcription involves a constant interchange, bar ...
THE Czech group, the Wihan Quartet, having moved from their complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle on to the string quartets of Dvorak, now turn their attention to Schubert with a fascinating ...
The Parker Quartet delivered compelling performances of Schubert and Britten string quartets.
Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 is one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire. In its extreme emotional color contrasts, it represents the apex of Romanticism.
The Wihan Quartet open Schubert's last string quartet with a strong emphasis on its monumentality. They are sure and steady, and sometimes broaden their slowish tempo even further. The 22-minute ...
The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...
His final string quartet, in G, D887, is also long, stretching to 47 minutes in this new performance by Barcelona’s Cuarteto Casals.