Schumann: String Quartets Op 41; Piano Quintet – review

Laul/Gringolts Quartet(Onyx, two CDs)Not so long ago new recordings of Schumann's three string quartets were rare events, but this is at least the third set to appear this year. The discs mark the recording debut of the Gringolts Quartet, which its leader Ilya Gringolts founded three years ago, and it also forms the last instalment of the quartet's survey of Schumann's chamber music for Onyx. Others may warm to the group's approach rather more than I do, but there is something about Gringolts's ...

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