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Robert Schumann - String Quartets | Naxos 8570151

Robert Schumann - String Quartets

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570151

Barcode: 0747313015177

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 27th November 2006

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About

Founded in Chicago in 1946, the Fine Arts Quartet is one of the most distinguished ensembles in chamber music today, with an illustrious history of performing success, an extensive recording legacy, and an astonishing durability. This is their first recording for Naxos.

Following the so-called ‘Year of Song’ (1840) during which Schumann poured out almost 140 of his finest Lieder, the newly-married composer turned to weightier forms. In 1842 Schumann composed the Three String Quartets Op. 41, the Piano Quintet Op. 44 and the Piano Quartet Op. 47, a veritable ‘Year of Chamber Music’.
 
Influenced by the late quartets of Beethoven and the quartets of Haydn and Mozart, Schumann’s string quartets are masterpieces in their own right, filled with musical inventiveness, youthful exuberance and intense poetic feeling.

 

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