The album is part of "The Auryn Series V," which is a collection of Haydn's string quartets performed by the Auryn Quartet.
Performer Biography
The Auryn Quartet laid the foundation for their development by studying together with the Amadeus Quartet and the Guarneri Quartet.
Performer Biography
The Auryn Quartet's members are Matthias Lingenfelder (violin), Jens Oppermann (violin), Stewart Eaton (viola), and Andreas Arndt (violoncello).
Performer Biography
The Auryn Quartet, founded in 1981 in Cologne, is named after the amulet from Michael Ende's children's classic 'Die Unendliche Geschichte,' which endows its bearer with intuition.
Performer Biography
Walter Jens, who provides meditations on Haydn's 'The Seven Words of Jesus on the Cross' for this album, was a German classical philologist and Germanist, holding the only chair for General Rhetoric in Germany.
Performer Biography
The Auryn Quartet has performed in major musical cities worldwide and at festivals like Lockenhaus, Bregenz, and Montepulciano.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in 1998 at the Patreskirche in the Kulturforum Franziskanerkloster Kempen, using Neumann M 49 and U 67 microphones.
