Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 12 & 15

Even in a work as well known as the Quartettsatz they lend character through elasticity of phrasing, which nicely counterbalances the piece’s inherent energy. But the main event is the G major... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Release Date: 30th Dec 2016
Catalogue No: CHAN10931
Label: Chandos
Length: 61 minutes

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

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 23 – 25 May 2016
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D887

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 23 – 25 May 2016
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

I. Allegro molto moderato

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II. Andante un poco mosso

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III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

7:20

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IV. Allegro assai

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Alongside its highly praised Haydn series, the Doric String Quartet continues its Schubert journey with this second volume of quartets, which precipitates us into the fraught world of late Schubert. Both composers will be central in the Quartet’s recitals next year, to take place in the highest-profile international venues, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and London’s Wigmore Hall.

Franz Schubert returned to composing string quartets in the 1820s, after four years of focusing on songs which were beginning to gain him wider recognition.

His late chamber compositions reveal probably his most characteristic music, full of deep intimacy and profound ambivalence. The ‘Quartettsatz’ (Quartet Movement) presents a turbulent, norm-breaking first movement. Only a fragment survives of a serene Andante in A flat, and nothing for any scherzo or finale. If the 'Rosamunde' and 'Death and the Maiden' (CHAN10737) are the most frequently heard of the quartets of Schubert, his last completed one – in G major – certainly remains his most uncompromising in its vastness, and perhaps his most prophetic of the musical future.

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February 2017

Even in a work as well known as the Quartettsatz they lend character through elasticity of phrasing, which nicely counterbalances the piece’s inherent energy. But the main event is the G major Quartet...And very impressive it is too, spacious without ever sounding ponderous.

15th February 2017

Dramatic readings of these masterpieces from this brilliant young British quartet.

29th January 2017

If this exciting performance has a fault, it’s to exaggerate the pianissimos. Otherwise, nothing but praise for their incisive, imaginative account.

8th January 2017

They attack the 1820 “Quartettsatz” in C minor with alarming intensity, flashing through its single movement with fiery determination, and maintain the same tension throughout...A standout recording of 2017 – and it’s still only January.

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