Franz Schubert · Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in G Major

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20 No. 3

Tetzlaff Quartet
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Elisabeth Kufferath, violin
Hanna Weinmeister, viola
Tanja Tetzlaff, cello

ODE 1293-2 · CD · March 2017

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Track listing

8 tracks · 75:16

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Franz Schubert

String Quartet No. 15 in G major 50:17
1 I Allegro molto moderato 19:48
2 II Andante un poco moto 11:54
3 III Scherzo. Allegro vivace 6:59
4 IV Allegro assai 11:36

Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20 No. 3 24:59
5 I Allegro con spirito 6:17
6 II Menuetto. Allegretto 4:39
7 III Poco adagio 8:33
8 IV Finale. Allegro molto 5:30

Product details

Format: CD
Release date: March 2017
Catalogue no.: ODE 1293-2
EAN / UPC: 0761195129326
Total duration: 75:16

Performers

Tetzlaff Quartet
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Elisabeth Kufferath, violin
Hanna Weinmeister, viola
Tanja Tetzlaff, cello

In this new recording the prestigious Tetzlaff Quartett (Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath, Hanna Weinmeister and Tanja Tetzlaff) present a programme of String Quartets by Franz Schubert and Joseph Haydn in exemplary performances.

Praised by The New York Times for its “dramatic, energetic playing of clean intensity”, the Tetzlaff Quartett is one of today’s leading string quartets. Alongside their successful individual careers, Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff, Hanna Weinmeister and Elisabeth Kufferath have met since 1994 to perform several times each season in concerts that regularly receive great critical acclaim. The 2016/17 season sees the quartet perform in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Leipzig, Aachen, Lörrach, Amsterdam, Bern, Gent and Wimbledon as well as at the Festival Heidelberger Frühling. Other recent highlights include performances at Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin and Paris’ Auditorium du Louvre, as well as a North America tour with concerts at Carnegie Hall, in San Francisco and Vancouver.

Franz Schubert’s (1797–1828) String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887 was completed by the composer in 1826. It is the last work in the impressive series of String Quartets that Schubert wrote during his lifetime. In this Quartet, nearly symphonic in its epic scale, Schubert was touching new musical landscapes after the success of his ‘Rosamunde’ and ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartets.

The String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20 No. 3 was written by Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), also known as ‘the Father of String Quartet’, in 1772 when he was at the height of his creative powers. In this revolutionary work with a hidden tension under its surface Haydn was exploring the limits of the genre.

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Christian Tetzlaff

Christian Tetzlaff has been one of the most sought-after violinists and exciting musicians on the classical music scene for many years. “The greatest performance of the work I’ve ever heard,” Tim Ashley wrote in the Guardian about his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Daniel Harding. In the Frankfurter Rundschau Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich called it virtually a “rediscovery” of this frequently played work.

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