Special offer. Schubert: String Quintet & String Quartet “Death and the Maiden”
Eckart Runge (cello)
Quartetto di Cremona
Under the fingers of these players (actually Genoese, despite the name of the ensemble), the instruments sound rich and even, recorded in an acoustic that allows the sound an attractive bloom....
Special offer. Schubert: String Quintet & String Quartet “Death and the Maiden”
Eckart Runge (cello)
Quartetto di Cremona
Purchase product
Under the fingers of these players (actually Genoese, despite the name of the ensemble), the instruments sound rich and even, recorded in an acoustic that allows the sound an attractive bloom....
About
The new album offers the chance to listen simultaneously to four Stradivari instruments and an Amati cello: The Quartetto di Cremona plays the Stradivarius Paganini Quartet, one of the few quartet "sets" completed by Antonio Stradivari and once owned by the legendary violinist Niccola Paganini. Eckart Runge plays a rare cello made by Hieronymus and Antonio Amati in their Cremonese atelier.
After completing the recording cycle of Beethoven's String Quartets, the Quartetto di Cremona's new double CD is entirely dedicated to Franz Schubert, presenting two of his latest masterpieces: the String Quartet Death and the Maiden and the String Quintet in C major, with cellist Eckart Runge.
Contents and tracklist
- Eckart Runge (cello)
- Quartetto di Cremona
- Recorded: 18-22 September 2018
- Recording Venue: Leibniz Saal, Hannover Congress Centrum, Germany
- Quartetto di Cremona
- Recorded: 18-22 September 2018
- Recording Venue: Leibniz Saal, Hannover Congress Centrum, Germany
Awards and reviews
June 2019
Under the fingers of these players (actually Genoese, despite the name of the ensemble), the instruments sound rich and even, recorded in an acoustic that allows the sound an attractive bloom. Combined with thoughtful interpretations, this makes the present two-disc package recommendable as a coupling of these two monuments of the repertoire.
