Death and the Maiden Quatuor Arod

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden":
• 1 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": I. Allegro 15:10
• 2 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto. Theme 02:26
• 3 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto. Variation I 01:56
• 4 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto. Variation II 01:59
• 5 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto. Variation III 01:44
• 6 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto. Variation IV 02:19
• 7 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto. Variation V 02:59
• 8 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": III. Scherzo - Allegro molto 03:50
• 9 String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": IV. Presto 08:33
• String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703, "Quartettsatz":
• 10 String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703, "Quartettsatz": I. Allegro assai 08:26
• String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, D. 46:
• 11 String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, D. 46: I. Adagio - Allegro con moto 08:08
• 12 String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, D. 46: II. Andante con moto 04:53
• 13 String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, D. 46: III. Menuetto. Allegro - Trio 04:11
• 14 String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, D. 46: IV. Finale. Allegro 04:28
• Total Runtime 01:11:02

Info for Death and the Maiden

“An outstanding album, was Gramophone magazine’s verdict on the Arod Quartet’s last release, a programme of Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Webern. Remaining in Vienna, the young French quartet goes back to the time of Schubert. “We wanted to explore several stylistic phases in Schubert’s life,” they explain. The centrepiece is his gripping Quartet No 14 (‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’/’Death and the Maiden’), written in the final years of his short life and complemented here by the Quartets No 4 and No 12 (‘Quartettsatz’).

"Give me your hand, sweet, lovely creature. I am your friend; I am not here to punish you. Cheer up! I am not fierce. You will sleep softly in my arms!" With those words, taken from Schubert's lied "Death and the Maiden", the Grim Reaper draws a child towards its fate. This powerful image inspired the composer's String Quartet No. 14, which has come to bear the same name as the lied. With its characteristic elan, the young Quatuor Arod can be relied on to bring this confrontation between life's beginnings and its end into sharp focus. The composer himself was to die in the springtime of his life, at barely 31 years of age.

Quatuor Arod

Quatuor Arod Quartet
The Arod quartet was the grand prize winner of the European FNAPEC Chamber Music Competition held in February 2014. At the same time, it also won the special prize awarded by the Pro-Quartet-CEMC (The European Center of Chamber Music) to promising young quartets.

The Arod Quartet was founded in 2013 by four young musicians eager to share and develop their passion for chamber music. As graduate students at the Paris Conservatory of Music and Dance, they presently receive coaching from Jean Sulem, violist and founding member of the Rosamond Quartet. The quartet also continues to work with well known string ensembles such as the Debussy Quartet, the Ebene Quartet, the Diotima Quartet, and the Tokyo Quartet. The members frequently seek artistic advice from cellists François Salque and Jérôme Pernoo.

The Arod Qartet has also been present on the air waves. France Musique, a highly popular classical music station, recently featured the quartet's first recording of music by Beethoven and Brahms.

This energetic ensemble is regularily invited to participate in festivals such as Les Melusicales, Musique a Versaille, Novembre musical de Bonne, Les Cordes en Ballad, the Pontlovoy International Festival, the Debussy Festival, Festivale de Pentecote en Barry, le IN des Vacances de Monsieur Haydn, just to highlight a few.

The quartet recently shared the stage with artists such as clarinetists Michel Lethiec and Romain Guyot, pianists Claire Desert and François Chaplin, as well as the Debussy Quartet.

Beginning October 2014, the Arod Quartet has accepted an invitation by the Artemis Quartet to be in residence with them at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels.

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