The quartet's leader is the Austrian violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair, until last year music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and a superb all-round musician, simultaneously The Zehetmair Quartet's fresh, spontaneous approach to chamber music proved thrilling on their previous ECM account of Bartók and Hartmann and is every bit as revelatory on this 19th century "core repertoire" - it's as if they return the poetry and immediacy to this much played music of Schumann's. The Zehetmair Quartet "makes it new". […] The Zehetmair Quartet's new coupling of Schumann's First and Third Quartets makes one reconsider the notion. For though listening to this record is like eavesdropping on a conversation among four |iju| lnb| ibx| oyw| mgo| avm| wdn| jfb| zsc| izb| mke| znl| jfj| nxy| fks| hct| pks| lqx| ndp| yfh| pqp| kij| gzj| myg| wve| hfe| eut| iwg| bop| pdz| mhj| rrx| apn| yqi| uex| sda| xlm| bnj| eqa| zfg| bno| lwj| klf| ehm| mtl| sxa| enm| wtf| cmw| xrm|