by Fred Sherry String Quartet · CD · EAN 0747313253326
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«Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 and 4» is the album by Arnold Schoenberg performed by the Fred Sherry String Quartet, released by Naxos on CD in 2010.
It brings together Schoenberg's last two quartets: No. 3, Op. 30, which looks to classical forms (theme with variations, minuet), and No. 4, Op. 37, of continuous development and variation, in the wake of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner. The Fantasy for violin and piano, Op. 47, closes the disc with a virtuoso dialogue.
DDD recording supervised by Robert Craft, released as Naxos 8.557533; total duration 74:51 and booklet notes in English.
For fans of chamber music and twentieth-century repertoire, particularly Schoenberg and the modern string quartet.
