Takacs Quartet - Schubert: String Quintet & String Quartet D956 & 703

The matchless Takacs Quartet return to Schubert. Their first disc on Hyperion�his �Death and the Maiden� and �Rosamunde� quartets�received unprecedently lavish critical acclaim, acknowledging a new modern benchmark for these works.Now they turn to perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful of all Schubert�s chamber works, the String Quintet�completed six weeks before the composer�s death. Schubert included a second cello in the texture, creating a sumptuously warm sound, a cradling intimacy. Here the Takacs players are joined by cellist Ralph Kirshbaum. Also recorded here is the �Quartettsatz�: a fragment�of the highest quality�of a String Quartet in C minor abandoned by the composer.