Schubert: String Quintet; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

Dutch violinist Janine Jansen is amongst friends in two of chamber music’s most important and influential works.

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‘They play with a control that brings real dramatic immediacy to the pieces … all the players converse with a single voice—the herding calls of the third movement [of the Schubert], for instance, ...
‘The individual strands of the chamber version make the music even more claustrophobic than it need be, so that by the end of the half-hour the feeling that you are in the sauna is overwhelming. This ...
‘There's no trace here of starry individualism, but instead a real feeling of collegiate responsibility in the way that all the players constantly listen to each other and shade their own contribution ...