Schönberg: String Quartet in D-major (1897) (1/3)

[thomas4179]

very good version

[teagueqc]

Thanks for making this available. This fine quartet was only published in 1966. It's quite playable by good amateurs - no more difficult than, say, Dvorak, and well worth a try. Schoenberg knew his chamber music from the inside, and it shows in the mastery of quartet texture that he displays even in this early work. Who are the performers, by the way?

[Nachtmarchen]

@teagueqc The LaSalle Quartet, recorded in the late 60s/early 70s. And I agree, this is a fine piece - not even Brahms (if Zemlinsky is to be believed) and the fierce Hanslick could resist its charm.