Praga: DSD250240

Schubert - String Trios

This programme offers a revealing juxtaposition of Franz Schubert's last String Quartet,his most enigmatic and most original, with his two String Trios.These sole two essays in the genre, on which the composer never looked back, clearly herald the harmonic modernism of his late masterpieces.The Praák Quartet, as in its earlier readings of the 'Rosamunde' and 'Death in the Maiden' Quartets, vividly highlights the dramatic character of this music that, without any spiritual break, looks ahead to the dramatic unity of the Second Viennese School and the major scores of Zemlinsky, Berg and Schoenberg.