Description
Schubert: String Quartets (Complete) Vol. 2 – Kodály Quartet, Naxos (CD)
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Product Details
- UPC: 0730099559126
- Catalogue Number: 8.550591
- Brand/Label: Naxos
- Composer: Franz Schubert
- Performers: Kodály Quartet
- Release Year: 1995
- Genre: Classical – Chamber Music/String Quartet
- Country of Producing: Germany
Product Features
- Format: Audio CD, DDD (fully digital recording), Stereo
- Total playing time: 64:52
- Series: Naxos Schubert Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
- Cover artwork: botanical illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Overview
This second volume in Naxos's complete Schubert quartet cycle pairs two works from very different points in his development. Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 — the "Rosamunde" quartet, though not labeled as such here — is mature Schubert: a long, lyrical opening movement, a slow movement that draws on his own incidental music, and a genuinely haunting emotional undertow throughout. Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, D. 87, by contrast, is an earlier, more Classically-proportioned work, written when Schubert was still working within Haydn and Mozart's formal templates rather than pushing past them. Hearing the two side by side gives a real sense of the distance Schubert traveled as a quartet composer. The Kodály Quartet — a Hungarian ensemble with an extensive Naxos discography — plays both with clean ensemble balance and a good sense of where each work sits stylistically. Recorded at Budapest's Unitarian Church, this is a strong, reasonably priced way into either work, and a solid volume within the broader complete cycle for anyone collecting it.
Interesting Facts
- Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804, is widely known as the "Rosamunde" Quartet because its second movement reuses a theme from Schubert's incidental music to the play Rosamunde.
- Quartet No. 10, D. 87, was composed when Schubert was around 18, reflecting the more Classically balanced style of his earlier chamber works before his later harmonic innovations.
- This release is part of Naxos's complete cycle of Schubert's string quartets, spanning his entire compositional development in the form.
- The Kodály Quartet, based in Hungary, recorded extensively for Naxos across multiple composers' complete quartet cycles during the 1990s.
- The cover artwork draws on the botanical illustrations of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, best known for his detailed rose paintings.
Track Listing
String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804
- Allegro ma non troppo – 14:14 · 2. Andante – 8:40 · 3. Menuetto: Allegretto – 7:26 · 4. Allegro moderato – 6:53
String Quartet No. 10 in E Flat Major, D. 87
- Allegro moderato – 10:25 · 6. Scherzo: Prestissimo – 2:04 · 7. Adagio – 6:13 · 8. Allegro – 8:29
Publishers
Naxos, part of the Naxos Music Group, recorded at the Unitarian Church, Budapest, with production by Phoenix Studio (producer Ibolya Tóth, engineer János Bohus, music notes Keith Anderson). Distributed by MVD Music and Video Distribution GmbH, Unterhaching/Munich, Germany.
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