Recordings

Lontano
Die Nacht
Quasi parlando
Hieroglyphen der Nacht
Nuit blanche
Tarkovsky Quartet
Nostalghia
Ojos Negros
Navidad de los Andes
El Encuentro
Kultrum
Moderato cantabile
Chants, Hymns and Dances
leggiero, pesante
Mirror
Il Pergolese
Melos
Her First Dance
Night
The Seven Words
String Quartets – Tigran Mansurian
IXXU
Notturno
Song of Songs
Beyond The Borders
Music for the Film
La notte

Rosamunde Quartett

Anton Webern / Dimitri Shostakovich / Emil František Burian - Rosamunde Quartett

The German-Austrian-Australian Rosamunde Quartett München was formed in 1991 by four musicians of widely differing backgrounds, and given early encouragement by Sergiu Celibedache and Heinrich Schiff. A major success at the Berliner Festwochen a year later elevated them to ‚the elite of the lofty guild of string quartets‘ to quote one German critic, and since then they have toured the major festivals. The undervalued work of Czech composer Burian has been one of the quartet’s enthusiasms from the outset. Here they contrast his 4th String Quartet with Shostakovich’s 8th – in the process alluding to the troubled biographies of both men – in a programme that begins with Webern’s farewell to Romanticism in the Langsamer Satz.