Schubert: String Quintet & String Quartet 'Death and the Maiden' Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge 

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 'Cello Quintet':
• 1 String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 'Cello Quintet': I. Allegro ma non Troppo 19:43
• 2 String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 'Cello Quintet': II. Adagio 14:26
• 3 String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 'Cello Quintet': III. Scherzo. Presto - Trio. Andante Sostenuto 10:15
• 4 String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 'Cello Quintet': IV. Allegretto 09:30
• String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 'Death and the Maiden':
• 5 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 'Death and the Maiden': I. Allegro 11:53
• 6 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 'Death and the Maiden': II. Andante con Moto 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' 13:36
• 7 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 'Death and the Maiden': III. Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio 03:50
• 8 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 'Death and the Maiden': IV. Presto 09:05
• Total Runtime 01:32:18

Info for Schubert: String Quintet & String Quartet 'Death and the Maiden'

The Quartetto di Cremona present Schubert’s greatest legacy to chamber music, recording on the Paganini Quartet’s Stradivarius instruments for the first time. They are joined by Eckart Runge on a rare Hieronymus & Antonio Amati cello.

Quartetto di Cremona's First Recording on the Paganini Quartet: The new album offers the chance to listen simultaneously to four Stradivari instruments and an Amati cello: The Quartetto di Cremona plays the Stradivarius Paganini Quartet, one of the few quartet "sets" completed by Antonio Stradivari and once owned by the legendary violinist Niccolò Paganini. Eckart Runge plays a rare cello made by Hieronymus and Antonio Amati in their Cremonese atelier.

After completing the recording cycle of Beethoven's String Quartets, the Quartetto di Cremona's new double album is entirely dedicated to Franz Schubert, presenting two of his latest masterpieces: the String Quartet Death and the Maiden and the String Quintet in C major, with cellist Eckart Runge.

Quartetto di Cremona
Eckart Runge, cello

Quartetto di Cremona
Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. Regularly invited to perform in major music festivals and halls in Europe, North and South America, and Far East, they garner universal acclaim for their high level of interpretive artistry. Highlights of recent seasons include concerts at the Wigmore Hall (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Konzerthaus in Berlin, Brucknerhaus (Linz), in Geneva, Salzburg, Istanbul, Stockholm, Mumbai, Taipei, Beijing, for the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and at the Dvorak Festival in Prague. North American tours are regularly planned twice a year: the acclaimed debut at Carnegie Hall (October 2023) was followed by a re-invitation to Lincoln Center for the Chamber Music Society (February 2022, March 2024). In 24/25 season the ensemble will celebrate 25 years of career with several concerts at Italian major series, as well as in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, North America, Taiwan, Japan, and China. Previous recordings include: “Italian Postcards” (2020, Avie Records); a Schubert double CD (2019, Audite); the complete Beethoven String Quartets (2018, Audite). The Quartet is honorary citizen of Cremona, where they have been Professors at the Walter Stauffer Academy since 2011. Prized in 2019 with the “Franco Buitoni Award” by the Borletti Buitoni Trust for their constant contribution to the promotion of chamber music in Italy and around the world, they are ambassadors for the international project “Friends of Stradivari” and endorse Thomastik Infeld Strings.

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