Schubert: Early String Quartets

Schubert: Early String Quartets

On this CD:

1. String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, D. 87 (Op. 125/1)
Composed by Franz Schubert
Performed by Gina McCormack, Sorrel Quartet, Helen Thatcher, Vicci Wardman, Catherine Yates

2. String Quartet No. 8 in B flat major, D. 112 (Op. posth. 168)
Composed by Franz Schubert
Performed by Gina McCormack, Sorrel Quartet, Helen Thatcher, Vicci Wardman, Catherine Yates

3. String Quartet No. 9 in G minor, D. 173
Composed by Franz Schubert
Performed by Gina McCormack, Sorrel Quartet, Helen Thatcher, Vicci Wardman, Catherine Yates

Editorial Reviews
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These string quartets were written over the space of a year and a half. Schubert the protoromantic, who was 16 when he composed the first of them, doesn't appear until the "Quartettsatz," written a few years later. But these are all charming pieces with something to say, even if they often sound more like Haydn than Schubert. The Sorrel Quartet, a British ensemble founded in 1987, plays Schubert very well, with appropriate lyricism and excellent ensemble and balance. They also present quite a generous program, very well recorded. They don't quite capture the personal quality of the Leipzig Quartet's complete Schubert series, but for those wanting a sampling of early Schubert chamber music, this is a fine introduction. --Leslie Gerber

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