For the Jubilee’s leader Tereza Privratska, Schubert’s last quartet is ‘filled with the emotions of a dying man expressing so clearly how he felt’. I’d question whether Schubert knew that his days ...

The Quartettsatz is a work that lends itself particularly well to the period approach, and the Terpsycordes are duly impressive, stripping away any excess vibrato. Particularly impressive is the ...

Best known for their superb interpretation of the six Bartok string quartets, the Takcs quartet has delivered a strong performance in their recently released CD of Schubert”s String Quartet in G major ...

In the last of a trio of concerts focussing on the quartets of Shostakovich, the acclaimed foursome takes on two haunted, “late-style” works: Shostakovich’s valedictory Quartet No. 15 (a series of six ...

Fitting Schubert's heavenly string ­quintet and the final two quartets, all substantial works, on to just two discs is quite a feat, but the price to be paid is that the G major quartet is awkwardly ...

THE Czech group, the Wihan Quartet, having moved from their complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle on to the string quartets of Dvorak, now turn their attention to Schubert with a fascinating disc of ...