Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Jerusalem Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMC901990
Release: 2008
Size: 236 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D703 ‘Quartettsatz’
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’
02. I. Allegro
03. II. Andante con moto
04. III. Scherzo. Allegro molto
05. IV. Presto
‘Be comforted! I am not cruel; sleep in peace in my arms’, murmurs Death to the Maiden in a song written in 1817, seven years before the quartet to which it gave its name and which has since become one of the pillars of the repertoire. Here is a new challenge for the members of the Jerusalem Quartet, whose most recent incursion into Romantic territory, with Dvorák’s ‘American’ Quartet, received exceptional praise from Le Monde de la Musique for ‘its virtuosity, its vitality, its energetic, buoyant phrasing’.
