Schumann; String Quartets Op 41 – review

Doric String Quartet(Chandos)The Doric Quartet's first two discs for Chandos covered the quartets of Korngold and Walton, but with Schumann's three works of Op 41, his only quartets, they move into much more mainstream territory, with less success. The Doric are clearly a hugely accomplished group, but there is something rather gruff and strait-laced about their treatment of these works, as if they had thought too much about the quartets' debt to Beethoven and played them as if they were par...

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