Franz Schubert News: Der Tod Und Das Madchen
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Musical history is peppered with stories of luke-warm or downright disastrous premieres of now-beloved works, from riots over Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to an under-rehearsed orchestra and over-stuffed programme for Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. The path to greatness rarely runs smoothly, it seems. So it was for Schubert's Der Tod und das Mdchen, or Death and the Maiden, which was originally received with ''by no means unanimous approval''. Perhaps if the Jerusalem Quartet had been around back then, things may have gone better. This new disc for Harmonia Mundi features two quartets composed whilst Schubert was in the grip of the syphilis...
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