Classical Music for String Quartet

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 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.

First Edition

First Edition

First Edition

The 6 quartets, published for the first time, show the great fugue master at the height of his creative powers: a celebration of music-making on equal terms.

First Edition

First Edition

First Edition

Through the quartet version with concertante double bass, the violoncello gains more dominance in the melodic line and enhances the dark sonorous timbre of the work.