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Robert Schumann - Auryn Quartet - String Quartets 1-3
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Label/Cat#: Tacet # TACET 102 | Country/Year: Germany 2001
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, String Quartet

"They took their name from the amulet in Michael Ende’s “Neverending Story”, and their playing is equally intuitive, secretive, spiritual and polished when they perform the three string quartets by Schumann. The Auryn Quartet has been established at the top of international quartets for almost twenty years now, and this recording is once more a masterpiece of select, well-balanced quartet art." (Abendzeitung)

Gaede Trio - Schubert / Matthus / Dohnányi
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Label/Cat#: Tacet # TACET 72 | Country/Year: Germany 1998
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Classical Period, Contemporary

"…seldom has a string trio displayed such smooth tone and cultivated playing. Even more impressive are the apparent ease and balance; their early Schubert is calm but always so fresh and alert that it never sounds old-fashioned. This is a graceful, lilting performance; a few exaggerated phrases add colour without distorting the line (…) If this performance (Dohnanyi) fails to erase memories of the Heifetz-Primrose-Feuermann recording, it does replace that classic as the one I will listen to most often. It also reveals the Gaede's range: this could be three different ensembles, specialists in the Classical, Late-Romantic, and Expressionist repertoires." (Fanfare)