Schubert - String Quartets Vol.1
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94315
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 12th November 2012
Contents
Works
Andante in C major, D3String Quartet no.7 in D major, D94
String Quartet no.13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde'
Artists
Diogenes QuartetWorks
Andante in C major, D3String Quartet no.7 in D major, D94
String Quartet no.13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde'
Artists
Diogenes QuartetAbout
Many of Schubert’s instrumental works remained unpublished during his lifetime, and it was only in the decades following his untimely death that the young Austrian’s genius came to be fully appreciated.
Schubert is perhaps best known as a song composer, and the first volume of this series focuses on the lyrical qualities of his early string quartets. The disc begins with the 1823 ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet No.13 in A minor D804: rooted in the world of song, the work earned its nickname from the slow movement – a set of variations on a theme from the composer’s incidental music to Wilhelmine von Chézy’s play Rosamunde (written the year before).
Also featured is the Quartet in D D94 which is now believed to be one of Schubert’s earliest string creations. Here the dramatic harmonic shifts point to a composer who, even in his teenage years, was already seeking to escape the confines of the Classical period.
Formed in Munich in 1996, the young Diogenes Quartet stands as one of the most acclaimed ensembles of its generation. Here they perform with aplomb, combining freshness of interpretation with technical mastery to create superlative readings that document the beginnings of Schubert’s chamber music career.
Diogenes Quartet:
- Stefan Kirpal, Gundula Kirpal (violins)
- Julia Barthel (viola)
- Stephen Ristau (cello)
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