Bernhard Päuler

The work, composed in Dresden in 1870, quickly 'became famous' and was perceived as significant, is still one of the masterpieces of musical art even after a good 130 years of barrel oblivion.

Vierling's work, based on the gathering of highly romantic stylistic elements and internalized to the point of tone-painting asceticism, is unequaled in this virtuosic-compositional expression: great...

Riemann's own musical analysis enables him to create a tonal language whose delicate, espressive melodicism and rhythmic refinement command admiration.

First Edition

The source are the autograph parts, dated 'Baden, d. 25. IX. 1918'.

This ravishing serenade-style work, reminiscent of Mendelssohn and Schumann at their most beautiful, should be welcome to players who (at times) must do without a cellist.

The impetuous, manic-depressive work, which in parts does not deny its great model Beethoven, is quite suitable to make the chamber music legacy of the great violinist feel at home again on the podium...

A quartet in a class of its own by a friend of Brahms. Joseph Joachim: 'It urges me to admiringly shake your hand for this subtle work, with which you have enriched our literature'.

The work unites through its noble melodic invention, paired with perfect thematic processing and brilliant formal structure all the qualities that thoroughbred musicians desire.