Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D956 (with Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4)
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Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D956 (with Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4)
Janine Jansen (violin) with Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Amihai Grosz (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Jens Peter Maintz (cello)
[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 August 2013
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Dutch violinist Janine Jansen presents a new album coupling two of the most heart-felt masterpieces of the Viennese romantic repertoire.
Schubert's last and greatest chamber work, the sublime String Quintet in C major, is contrasted with the young Schoenberg's earliest masterpiece, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night).
For this recording, derived from emotionally charged live performances given in Dortmund in May 2012, Janine Jansen is joined by a group of exceptional young musicians who are all close personal friends as well as fellow members of Spectrum Concerts Berlin, the prestigious German chamber music group with whom Jansen has played since 1998. Alongside Swedish cellist Torleif Thedéen and Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov, who both joined Jansen for her 2007 Bach album, they include Russian-born violinist Boris Brovtsyn, Israeli violist Amihai Grosz and German cellist Jens Peter Maintz.
"they play with a control that brings real dramatic immediacy to the pieces...all the players converse with a single voice - the herding calls of the third movement [of the Schubert], for instance, have their own distinct colour simply by virtue of the other-worldly accuracy of their tuning." (Gramophone)
"The individual strands of the chamber version make the music even more claustrophobic than it need be, so that by the end of the half-hour the feeling that you are in the sauna is overwhelming. This team makes sure that you share their efforts to the full." (BBC Music)
