Schubert / Valchev String Quartet - Der Tod Und Das Madchen - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

If one loves music, one can never be totally unhappy. (Franz Schubert) In his short lifetime Franz Schubert created a considerable amount of works. He composed in almost all genre types lieder works - over 600, operas, symphonies, masses, octets, chamber music, dance music waltzes, ländler, gallops, écossaises... String quartets are part of his works for small instrumental ensembles and are among his most performed pieces. Schubert himself pays special attention to them. In a letter to his friend, the painter Leopold Kupelwiezer, he wrote that he intended to InchpaveInch the path to the Inchbig symphonyInch, composing string quartets in Inchhigh styleInch and with Inchsymphonic proportionsInch. This is entirely true of his later quartets, including the quartet in D minor InchDer Tod und das MädchenInch (1824). The title is derived from the poem of the same name written by Matthias Claudius, and this is the main theme in the second part of the work. The unfinished quartet in D minor InchQuartettsatzInch (1820) precedes the last three quartets and is a kind of introduction to the new expressive techniques characteristic of Schubert's work at the end of his life. The two quartets are performed in this by the Valchev String Quartet - one of the most widely recognised Bulgarian chamber ensembles in the period 1973-1982. It had many concert performances in Bulgaria and abroad Germany, Austria, Hungary, the former USSR, Poland, Belgium, France, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Switzerland, Greece, Syria, Spain and Cuba. The quartet specialised under prominent professors Prof. Vilmos Tatray (Budapest), Prof. Frantz Samohil (Vienna) and Prof. Rudolf Nell (Munich). It's mastership of performing was highly appreciated at prestigious international competitions, where it ranked among the award winners. Album Tracks 1. String Quartet in D minor InchDer Tod Und Das MadchenIn