Schumann / Brahms / Wolf - String Quartets
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4807399
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th April 2015
Contents
Works
String Quartet no.3 in B flat major, op.67String Quartet in A minor, op.41 no.1
Italienische Serenade (Italian Serenade) in G major
Artists
Musikverein QuartetAbout
After the wealth of string quartets produced by the composers of High Classicism - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert – the leading figures of Romanticism were somewhat daunted by the expectations of their public.
Felix Mendelssohn achieved a respectable total of six quartets but the three notable composers represented in this program managed only nine between them. Johannes Brahms, in particular, was paralysed by the thought that if he wrote a symphony or a quartet, people would measure it against Beethoven’s mighty creations. He kept a bust of Beethoven in his study and destroyed numerous works which he felt would not stand comparison with those of his hero.
Robert Schumann was a slightly different case. In 1842 he confronted chamber music head on: he and Clara studied Haydn’s, Mozart’s and Beethoven’s quartets, playing them together on the piano, and in June and July Robert produced an extraordinarily unified trio of quartets, connected by key but distinct from each other.
Hugo Wolf wrote relatively little chamber music, but with the Italian Serenade of 1887, he produced in a few days one of the most delectable miniatures in the chamber literature: this free rondo dance in the most light-footed manner.
Receiving their first international release on CD, all three works are here performed by the Musikverein Quartet, founded in 1973 by members of the Vienna Philharmonic.
‘A performance of remarkable clarity … very good recorded quality’ [Wolf] - Gramophone (October 1979)
‘The Musikverein’s playing is proficient, polished, correct’ [Brahms, Schumann] - Gramophone (September 1977)
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