Daniel Muller-Schott

“As Daniel Müller-Schott intimates in his own perceptive booklet note for this release, the two Shostakovich cello concertos, although separated by just seven years, inhabit very different worlds. Müller-Schott reflects this in his cello-playing: where No 1 still has an element of post-Stalinist optimism about it, to No 2 he brings home the desperation of the composer's situation, beset with heart and neurological illness. The soloist is set well forward in the aural picture, which emphasises Müller-Schott's eloquent tone and expression, but Yakov Kreizberg and his orchestra play their own part, with particularly vivid percussion in the Second Concerto. A gripping disc.” Matthew Rye, Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2008

“Müller-Schott manages the singular trick of keeping his cello tone rich and gorgeous without lessening the music’s ability to stab the heart. Listen to his lonely eloquence as he climbs up the first concerto’s second movement, and the eerie shiverings at its peak, when cello harmonics join hands with the celesta in an unearthly duet. The second concerto receives an equally febrile performance.” The Times, 27th June 2008 ****

“..the Double Concerto one of the most beautiful and idiomatic readings on disc in recent years. Four stars.” Hugn Canning, Sunday Times CD of the Week 6th May 2007

“…The three superb musicians on this new recording, all in their twenties, face the hefty competition easily by playing with an irresistible spontaneity. They approach these works as interior high dramas; contested between melancholy and ecstasy…they play with an unassailable precision.” Alan Kozinn, The New York Times

Profil are proud to present their latest release; a collaboration between Daniel Müller-Schott and the Vogler Quartet of string music played to the highest standard. Classics Today have praised Müller-Schott for his “awesome virtuoso brilliance” and The Guardian rate the Vogler Quartet “in the highest category of contemporary string quartets.” On a previous release The Guardian also wrote: “They play with a wonderful expressive ease and warmth and possess the unteachable knack of being able to communicate everything they do directly and unaffectedly. Their performances are marvels of eloquent phrasing and subtle co-ordination, instinctive music-making of the very highest class.”

"With a perfect balance between instruments, this is playing which gives nothing but a glow of pleasure" Editor's Choice, Gramophone, Awards issue 2007

"Müller-Schott's expressive legato movingly captures the sadness and resignation of [Elgar's] adagio, but he can dazzle, too, in the restless semiquavers of the allegro molto section of the scherzo-like second movement. This is a deeply felt, freshly conceived reading of a much-recorded piece. No less desirable is his account of the Walton" Sunday Times Classical CD of the Week 18th June 2006 The Strad Selection