Franz Schubert's final six years were overshadowed by syphilis, requiring hospitalisation and unpleasant mercury treatment, yet he produced a rich legacy of chamber works.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded using 24-bit / 96 kHz technology, which offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.
Compositional Technique
The 'Quartettsatz' (quartet movement) by Schubert includes a theme seemingly borrowed from Grétry's 1769 opera Lucile, which was used as a royalist anthem by the Bourbons.
Compositional Technique
Schubert's String Quintet in C major features two cellos, which he used for textural enrichment, particularly in the first movement where they sing the second theme in thirds.
Performer Biography
The Brodsky Quartet is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, having performed over 3000 concerts and released more than seventy recordings since its formation in 1972.
Performer Biography
Laura van der Heijden, the cellist on this recording, won the BBC Young Musician competition at age fifteen and plays a late-seventeenth-century cello by Francesco Ruggieri.
