Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 13 & 14

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The Doric Quartet play with passion, but there is relaxation, even wit, in both these works, and the Doric seem to be eager to stress the prevailing darkness at the expense of warmth and lyricism,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Sep 2012
Catalogue No: CHAN10737
Label: Chandos
Length: 73 minutes

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Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804, "Rosamunde"

Work length33:35

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 10-12 April 2012
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length13:03

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II. Andante

Track length6:06

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III. Menuetto. Allegretto

Track length7:13

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IV. Allegro moderato

Track length7:13

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Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden'

Work length40:13

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 10-12 April 2012
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro

Track length15:02

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II. Andante con moto

Track length13:04

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III. Scherzo. Allegro molto

Track length3:34

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IV. Presto

Track length8:33

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On this new release, the Doric String Quartet turns to the music of Franz Schubert. It is the Quartet’s fifth release for Chandos, and the discography has gone from strength to strength. MusicWeb International said of the recent Korngold release (CHAN10707): ‘The Doric Quartet seem to have a Midas touch, and any repertoire they commit to disc comes out sparkling’. Their Schumann release (CHAN10692) was ‘Recording of the Month’ in both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.

In March 1824, despite describing himself as ‘the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world’, Schubert completed not only the great Octet, but also the two String Quartets recorded here.

The String Quartet in D minor is considered the greatest of Schubert’s late quartets, mainly on account of its raw emotional honesty, which reaches an almost unendurable pitch in the second movement, a set of variations based on Schubert’s song Der Tod und das Mädchen. All four movements are driven by extensively repeated rhythmic figures, reminiscent of the musical style of Schubert’s great idol, Beethoven.

Full of Schubertian ambivalence, the String Quartet in A minor is a deeply intimate work. The opening, expressing brooding sadness, is played by the first violin over a restless accompaniment, and subsequently interrupted by flurries of almost manic energy. In the second movement, Schubert ‘borrowed’ the main melody from the second Entr’acte of his incidental music to the play Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern (1823) by Wilhelmine von Chézy.

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December 2012

The Doric Quartet play with passion, but there is relaxation, even wit, in both these works, and the Doric seem to be eager to stress the prevailing darkness at the expense of warmth and lyricism, which is so notable in the A minor Quartet. They play with notably little vibrato, so the impression of coolness is increased.

October 2012

The Dorics have enormous flair for this kind of music, getting comfortably under the skin of music written by Schubert when he was about the same as their average age and displaying a similar degree of maturity and insight

23rd September 2012

imaginative and exciting...The A minor’s opening shows the Doric’s alertness to the quintessentially Schubertian combination of nervous, obsessive rhythm and songlike melodic lines...The D minor is very fine, culminating in a tingling presto finale whose whispered, ghostly pianissimos make the sudden outbursts all the more ferocious.

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