Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde', etc.

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'Schubert's Quartet has been performed, rather slowly in his opinion, but very purely and tenderly,' wrote Moritz von Schwind on the day D804 was premiered by the Schuppanzigh Quartet. The composer... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 25th Jan 2003
Catalogue No: 5574192
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 72 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

March 2003

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Excerpt, Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde'

Work length14:33

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Belcea Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 2002-07-12
Recording Venue: 8-12 July 2002. Potton Hall, Suffolk

Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde': Andante

Work length7:27

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Belcea Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 2002-07-12
Recording Venue: 8-12 July 2002. Potton Hall, Suffolk

Excerpt, Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde'

Work length14:59

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Belcea Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 2002-07-12
Recording Venue: 8-12 July 2002. Potton Hall, Suffolk

III. Menuetto (Allegretto) & Trio

Track length7:41

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IV. Allegro moderato

Track length7:18

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Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 ‘Quartettsatz'

Work length9:40

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Belcea Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 2002-07-12
Recording Venue: July 8-12 2002. Potton Hall, Suffolk

Schubert: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, D87

Work length26:38

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Belcea Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 2002-07-12
Recording Venue: July 8-12 2002 at Potton Hall, Suffolk

Allegro moderato

Track length10:18

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Scherzo (Prestissimo)

Track length1:59

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Adagio

Track length6:25

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Allegro

Track length7:56

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2010

'Schubert's Quartet has been performed, rather slowly in his opinion, but very purely and tenderly,' wrote Moritz von Schwind on the day D804 was premiered by the Schuppanzigh Quartet. The composer may well have reacted similarly on hearing the Belcea's first movement. It's a spacious tempo, certainly, causing some of the more energetic music – the last four bars for instance – to sound slightly ponderous. But purity and tenderness are certainly in evidence.
Internal balance and intonation are exemplary, and in the songful melodic writing that dominates the whole work, Corina Belcea and her colleagues seem to have the knack of shaping each long phrase to perfection, knowing just when to intensify the vibrato or give a note extra emphasis, and when to allow the music to flow effortlessly onwards.
These fine qualities persist throughout. There may be more dramatic accounts of D703, but no other group presents its cantabile music in a more affecting way. The lesser work, D87, gets a charming, persuasive interpretation, but the profound and subtle way these young players engage with the later, greater music is the most impressive thing this group has done so far.

Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde', etc.

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