New. Schubert: String Quartets D. 887, D. 703
Zemlinsky Quartet
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Chamber Choice
The Zemlinsky Quartet (like the Alban Berg Quartet before them) build this account along large-scale lines, both in terms of assaying its overall structure, and imparting a formal logic and...
New. Schubert: String Quartets D. 887, D. 703
Zemlinsky Quartet
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Chamber Choice
The Zemlinsky Quartet (like the Alban Berg Quartet before them) build this account along large-scale lines, both in terms of assaying its overall structure, and imparting a formal logic and...
About
Schubert’s late string quartets are important for their unprecedented emotional depth, formal expansion, and daring harmonic language. They transform classical quartet traditions by infusing them with romantic intensity, confronting themes of mortality, inner conflict, and lyric beauty. Through large-scale structures, stark contrasts, and expressive unity, these works reshaped the expressive possibilities of chamber music and influenced the development of the romantic quartet tradition.
Contents and tracklist
Work length50:06
This work is only available as an album download.
I. Allegro molto moderato
Track length20:01
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II. Andante un poco moto
Track length11:47
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IV. Allegro assai
Track length11:10
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineAugust 2026Chamber Choice
August 2026
The Zemlinsky Quartet (like the Alban Berg Quartet before them) build this account along large-scale lines, both in terms of assaying its overall structure, and imparting a formal logic and inevitability to its extended time-frame.
