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Streichquartett Nr. 14 d-moll op. posth. D 810 "Der Tod und das M?dchen"

01. "1. Allegro"

02. "2. Andante con moto"

03. "3. Scherzo: Allegro molto"

04. "4. Presto"
Streichquartett Nr. 9 g-moll op. posth. D 173

05. "1. Allegro con brio"

06. "2. Andantino"

07. "3. Menuetto: Allegro vivace"

08. "4. Allegro"

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Chiaroscuro Quartet

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One of the truly iconic works in the repertoire for string quartet, Franz Schubert's Death and the Maiden is named after the song which has lent it's theme to the second movement. At the end of Matthias Claudius's poem, which Schubert had set as a 20-year-old in 1817, Death cradles the Maiden in his bony embrace. And her fear, in the first verse, of encountering his tomb-cold touch is mirrored by his desire for her in the second. In Schubert's lifetime, death was a constant presence in everyday life and even a young person like himself would have encountered it at close quarters - in fact, his own mother had passed away when he was only 15. When Schubert returns to the song in 1824 and starts work on the string quartet, death has nevertheless grown even more real: in the meantime he has become acquainted with pain and disease during the bouts of the syphilis that he knows will kill him. He turns the song into a set of variations, preceding it with a ferocious Allegro, and following it with a Scherzo and a Finale that have been described as 'the dance of the demon fiddler' and 'a dance with death'. The acclaimed Chiaroscuro Quartet performs the work on gut strings, which brings out the vulnerability and desperation even further. The players then let us down gently with the youthful String Quartet No.?9 in G minor, a work in which the minor key offers Schubert the opportunity to play with light and shadows, rather than full-scale drama.

Recording: March 2017 at the Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany Comes in a standard jewel case with transparent tray, with 20-page booklet Liner notes in English, German and French ? &© 2018, Deutschlandradio / BIS Records AB, Åkersberga. Made in the EU TT: 62'47 Catalog numbers ? BIS-2268 | SACD on back inlay and disc ? BIS-2268 SACD on spine and website ? BIS-2268 on booklet p. 19 and back Instrumentarium: ? Alina Ibragimova: Violin by Anselmo Bellosio, c.1780 ? Pablo Hernán Benedí: Violin by Andrea Amati 1570, kindly on loan from 'Jumpstart Jr. Foundation' ? Emilie Hörnlund: Viola by Willems, c.1700 ? Claire Thirion: Cello by Carlo Tononi 1720

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BISSACD-2268

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