Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' / String Quartet No. 12 Quartettsatz'

"The Jerusalem find all the drama. Another fine, compelling release from the Jerusalem Quartet. Goodness knows, there's enough competiton out there for Deaths and Maidens and I'm still in awe of the intensity of the recent Takács version on Hyperion. But this performance takes a slower-burn approach, a careful sense of story-telling that has its own deep rewards." (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2008)

'Be comforted! I am not cruel; sleep in peace in my arms', murmurs Death to the Maiden in a song written in 1817, seven years before the quartet to which it gave its name and which has since become one of the pillars of the repertoire. Here is a new challenge for the members of the Jerusalem Quartet, whose most recent incursion into Romantic territory, with Dvorák's 'American' Quartet, received exceptional praise from Le Monde de la Musique for 'its virtuosity, its vitality, its energetic, buoyant phrasing'.