Schubert: String Quartets, D. 703, 46 & 804

Composed in 1824 during Schubert’s final creative phase, the Rosamunde Quartet, D804 is music with two faces: happy and despondently sad, simple sounding yet full of endlessly differentiated detail, with a natural flow abruptly interrupted time and again. The three pieces on this Genuin CD cover his compositional beginnings to a period of self-discovery, all the way to those final years of consummate, mature mastery. The Klenke Quartet, all of whom are graduates of the Franz Liszt College of Music, Weimar, maintain a wide repertoire and tour internationally to much acclaim.