[ Harmonia Mundi / Harmonia Nova Series / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 6 October 2017
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These four Catalan musicians exiled in Berlin already have considerable experience behind them: seven years of shared concerts and discoveries that have seen them win major international prizes. The quartet's first disc at once says it all: an overarching perspective on the repertory, a taste for challenges, and uncompromisingly rigorous standards. All the qualities required to reach the highest peaks.
Lluís Castán Cochs, violin
Judit Bardolet Vilaró, violin
Miquel Jordà Saún, viola
Jesús Miralles Roger, cello
The harmonia#nova series is conceived to offer young artists singled out for their exceptional talents a technical, editorial and promotional showcase that lives up to the high standards of harmonia mundi's classical productions. While those standards remain identical across a very wide range of repertories, the recording philosophy governing this series is rather different, since it is produced above all by the musicians themselves.
"There are many solid recordings of both the Schumann as well as the Berg to hear so I fear that many listeners would shun this recording simply because of not knowing this Quartet Gerhard. Do not let the youthful anonymity dissuade you though. They are very talented performers with an intriguing sense of programming and the disc itself (the whole Harmonia Nova series) is economically priced and well worth your attention." AudAud.com Jan 2018
"The opening account of Schumann's best known quartet, Op 41 No 3 in A minor, gives a good sense of the warmth and immediacy of Quartet Gerhard's playing, but it's Berg's Lyric Suite that shows the group at their best, emphasising the music's histrionic extremes and its rapid changes of mood in an irresistible way...A hugely impressive debut disc." The Guardian
Robert Schumann
String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op.41 No.3
Alban Berg
Lyric Suite
György Kurtág
Officium breve in memoriam Andrae Szervanszky, Op.28