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Schubert - String Quintet in C, ’Quartettsatz’ | Erato 5021132

Schubert - String Quintet in C, ’Quartettsatz’

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 5021132

Barcode: 5099950211326

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 7th April 2008

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After their highly acclaimed recording of the Schumann and Brahms’ Piano Quintets with Leif Ove Andsnes, the Artemis Quartet is again joined by one of today’s greatest musicians: Truls Mørk. The Artemis’ new release introduces on disc their quartet’s 2 new members (after the departure of Heime Müller and Volker Jacobsen): Gregor Sigl (violin) and Friedemann Weigle (viola).

Recorded right after their critically acclaimed Salzburg concert of August 2007, this will certainly be considered a benchmark recording, an exciting addition to the Virgin Classics catalogue and a joy to their many fans waiting for them to commit these works to disc.

Widely regarded as a masterpiece, both among Schubert’s many compositions as well as in the entire chamber music repertory, the C major "Two Cello Quintet" was composed in what were to be the last remaining months of his short life, and stands out for its unconventional instrumentation with two cellos instead of the customary two violas. The work is coupled with Schubert’s twelfth string quartet, the Quartettsatz, which remains one of the composer’s most popular of his fifteen quartets.

Artemis Quartet:
- Natalia Prischepenko, violin
- Gregor Sigl, violin
- Friedemann Weigle, viola
- Eckart Runge cello

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