String Quartet No. 12 in C minor ("Quartettsatz"), D. 703
Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, D. 956 (Op. posth. 163)
Listeners who think they know Schubert's popular Quartettsatz in C minor and String Quintet in C major should try this 2008 recording of those works by the Artemis Quartet. The driving Quartettsatz beginning the disc is justly famous for inaugurating Schubert's maturity as a chamber music composer, but the tender Andante following it here is a rarely recorded fragment that would have furnished the Quartettsatz with a slow movement had Schubert completed the movement. Performed with tremendous power by the Artemis Quartet, ...
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Listeners who think they know Schubert's popular Quartettsatz in C minor and String Quintet in C major should try this 2008 recording of those works by the Artemis Quartet. The driving Quartettsatz beginning the disc is justly famous for inaugurating Schubert's maturity as a chamber music composer, but the tender Andante following it here is a rarely recorded fragment that would have furnished the Quartettsatz with a slow movement had Schubert completed the movement. Performed with tremendous power by the Artemis Quartet, the combination of the two movements not only allows the composer's fans to hear music with which they are unlikely to be familiar, but also lets them hear the Quartettsatz in context of what might have been. The closing work, the Quintet in C major for string quartet plus second cello, is played in its customary finished form. But while there is no new music here, the strength of the group's interpretation transforms the familiar into the unfamiliar. As in the Quartettsatz plus...
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