Schubert: Quartet in G D887; Berg: Quartet Op 3 – review

Kuss Quartet(Onyx)Schubert's G major work arguably presents more interpretative challenges than any other 19th-century quartet after Beethoven, and for all the Kuss Quartet's considerable qualities as an ensemble, they fall well short of meeting those challenges convincingly. That the group are aware they need to do something to sustain the huge spans of the outer movements of the quartet is immediately obvious, but the fussiness with which they inflect the opening phrases has the opposite effec...

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