Schumann Quartet: an evening of delight – and frightening intensity

By Stephen Pritchard, 29 December 2019

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“the Schumanns revealed their almost uncanny synergy”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 27 December 2019

Haydn, String Quartet no. 1 in B flat major "La chasse", Op.1 no. 1, Hob III:1

Shostakovich, String Quartet no. 9 in E flat major, Op.117

Smetana, String Quartet no.1 in E minor "From my life"

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Sublime Mozart from Ottensamer and the Schumann Quartett at Klosters

Roy Westbrook, 28th July

These charming miniatures sounding overparted snatched from domestic service and pressed into public performance.

****1

Schumann Quartett's Beethoven journey at Suntory Hall

Nahoko Gotoh, 12th June

At Suntory Hall's annual chamber music festival, the Schumann Quartett embarks on a marathon of performing all of Beethoven’s string quartets over six concerts.

****1

Widmann meets Mozart in Prague

Frank Kuznik, 22nd May

The clarinetist/composer fulfills a dream and takes a talented quartet on a rambunctious romp through Mozart, Haydn and his own music.

****1

Exzellentes Schumann Quartett in Erlangen

Michael Vieth, 28th September

Die Reihe „ unerHÖRT“ besticht ein weiteres Mal, nun mit Kompositionen von Helena Winkelman, Arvo Pärt und Aribert Reimann.

****1

Dantes Höllenfahrt: Lucia Ronchettis Inferno an der Oper Frankfurt

Alexandra Richter, 2nd July

Die Koproduktion von Oper und Schauspiel Frankfurt wird pünktlich im Dante-Jahr 2021 zur Uraufführung gebracht.

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Sorgfalt und Homogenität: Das Schumann Quartett in Zürich

Rolf Kyburz, 8th April

Das Ensemble glänzte bei Haydn mit Wohklang und perfekt tarierter Dynamik und mit einer makellosen Technik bei Tchaikowsky.

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Stephen Pritchard

Stephen Pritchard began singing as a treble at the age of eight and progressed to become a tenor in Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, the Gibbons Consort and now the English Chamber Choir. Writing about music has been at the core of his 40-year career in journalism, chiefly at the Observer. He has been known to play a pretty mean jazz double bass.