Special offer. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death & the Maiden'
Kuss Quartett, Maurice Steger (recorder)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
This is altogether an enterprising and stimulating album, however, and it is impeccably played throughout.
Special offer. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death & the Maiden'
Kuss Quartett, Maurice Steger (recorder)
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Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
This is altogether an enterprising and stimulating album, however, and it is impeccably played throughout.
About
For their latest album for Rubicon, the Berlin based Kuss Quartet have programmed Schubert’s quartet ‘Death and the Maiden’ with two contemporary works by composers the quartet have often championed.
Schubert’s disturbing, death obsessed quartet, composed in the winter of 1822 when the composer was suffering from syphilis that would eventually claim him at the age of 31, has become one of his most performed works. The opening bars are electrifying, and without doubt, the early romantic age in music had dawned.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2025Editor's Choice
February 2025
This is altogether an enterprising and stimulating album, however, and it is impeccably played throughout.
January 2025
It’s not often that you get a chamber disc over which gripping, cumulative storytelling and bringing the repertoire forwards are favoured so entirely over playlist hits. This is how to programme Schubert, and flip me, it’s powerful.
