Schubert - String Quartet 14 [Lindsay String Quartet]
Today i played this while walking to Church, the combination of walking, fresh air, and listening to good music, makes music sound even more wonderful, this is a really dark work for me, there's anger right from the start, and swirling undercurrents of gloom are not far away, but like the Schubert song which this work is taken from, there's a light at the end, it's not a painful death, but a peaceful sleep.
This was the first ever String Quartet i ever listened to, and i was hooked right from the start, it's amazing what you can do with four similar instruments, i first fell in love with this work from a cassette tape by the Melos Quartet, for me this Lindsay Quartet performance is my touchstone recording, they have both vehemence and gravity here, it's a serious work rather than a fun work.
The Lindsay String Quartet are split up now, but in their prime they were probably the worlds greatest String Quartet, their countless recordings testify to their greatness, only their box set of Beethoven's Razumovsky Quartets beat this.
This time listening to this masterpiece, i was struck how all the movements fit together so rightly,
