String quartet 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' by world famous Aviv Quartet - Schubert, Shostakovich, Haydn

Schubert 'Der Tod und das Mädchen'

The string quartet is the symphony of chamber music. For more than two centuries composers have shared their deepest emotions in this intimate chamber music genre. So did Franz Schubert. In his famous string quartet Der Tod und das Mädchen life and death circle around each other. On the one hand the young girl who wants to live, on the other hand death as a kind man who promises her soft arms to die in. In the slow movement Schubert reuses the song of the same name that he composed seven years earlier. And Shostakovich? In his Fourth String Quartet he expresses his aversion to Stalinist terror. Music in which he uses Jewish folk music remarkably often

From spring, suffering and death: String quartets of Haydn, Shostakovich and Schubert
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Aviv Qu

'The Aviv Quartet is on its way to becoming one of the best string quartets', quality newspaper The Guardian recently wrote about this ensemble. By now they can be found on all major international chamber music stages. Moreover, they won several first prizes, such as those of the Charles Hennen Competition (1999) and the Schubert Competition (2003). Especially their performance of Shostakovich's string quartets appeals to the imagination and earned them rave reviews in the press

Pleasant dynamics
"The opening work, Haydn's String Quartet 'De Leeuwerik', has only been on the repertoire since the beginning of 2015. Those differences between the pieces, one well known and the other new, that gives a pleasant dynamic"
(Interview Sergey Ostrovsky, first violinist, read this interview. )