String Quartet in C Major / Death & the Maiden
Following the success of their 2011 Gramophone Recording of the Year album, Pavel Hass Quartet presents Schubert's two paramount mature works rightly ranked among the most valuable chamber gems. The String Quartet in D minor has a sort of dark cipher encoded within, and Death and the Maiden reflects the quotation from Schubert's eponymous song in the second movement. The Quartet invited the exceptional German-Japanese cellist Danjulo Ishizaka into the mix, whose qualities were concisely described by Mstislav Rostropovich as 'phenomenal in his technical ability; perfect in his musical creative power.'