Schubert - Late String Quartets G Major & C Minor 'Quartettsatz' - Fitzwilliam String Quartet (2021) [24-96]

Artist: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Title: Schubert: Late String Quartets. G Major & C Minor 'Quartettsatz'

Year Of Release: 2021

Label: Linn Records

Genre: Classical

Quality: 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)

Total Time: 01:14:13

Total Size: 1.29 GB



Tracklist:



1. String Quartet in C Minor "Quartettsatz", D. 703: I. Allegro assai (9:40)

2. String Quartet in C Minor "Quartettsatz", D. 703: II. Andante (8:43)

3. String Quartet in G Major, D. 887: I. Allegro molto moderato (22:36)

4. String Quartet in G Major, D. 887: II. Andante un poco moto (12:51)

5. String Quartet in G Major, D. 887: III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) - Trio (Allegretto) (7:35)

6. String Quartet in G Major, D. 887: IV. Allegro assai (12:52)



Having celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2019, it is perhaps remarkable that the Fitzwilliam String Quartet has not already recorded this towering pinnacle of Western music repertoire: Schubert’s String Quartet in G major, D. 887. This revelatory recording on period instruments proves it was well worth the wait! The work’s idiomatic grandeur and overall complexity coupled with its ever-changing tonalities and otherworldly atmosphere call for the sort of stamina that is the privilege of a limited few.



The Fitzwilliams rise admirably to the challenge, demonstrating the characteristic expertise which has defined their recordings over many decades. Inexplicably left unfinished, the C minor "Quartettsatz" rounds off the programme. This chiseled, and yet formally unorthodox, single movement is presented here with its Andante second movement completed by leading Schubert scholar Brian Newbould.