About this title: Turning from recording Mendelssohn's quartets, Germany's Henschel Quartet here couples Schubert's most popular quartet, the D minor "Death and the Maiden" Quartet from 1824, with one of his least-known quartets, the E flat major Quartet from 1813. As with Mendelssohn, the Henschel Quartet pushes Schubert's tempos -- the Allegros are faster than Allegro, the Presto is faster than Presto, and the Prestissimo is faster than Prestissimo, thereby repeatedly violating the aesthetic speed limit. The insistent ostinato in the D minor's Andante con moto sounds more like a march than a heartbeat and ...
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Format: CD
Label: Arte Nova Classics
Date: 03/13/2007
UPC:723721268855
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