Artist: Quartetto di Cremona, Eckart Runge 
Album: Schubert: String Quintet & String Quartet ‘Death and the Maiden’
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:32:18
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,80 GB

Tracklist:

1. Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge  – String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 ‘Cello Quintet’: I. Allegro ma non Troppo (19:43)
2. Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge  – String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 ‘Cello Quintet’: II. Adagio (14:25)
3. Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge  – String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 ‘Cello Quintet’: III. Scherzo. Presto – Trio. Andante Sostenuto (10:14)
4. Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge  – String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 / Op. Posth. 163 ‘Cello Quintet’: IV. Allegretto (09:30)
5. Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge  – String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 ‘Death and the Maiden’: I. Allegro (11:53)
6. Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge  – String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 ‘Death and the Maiden’: II. Andante con Moto ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ (13:36)
7. Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge  – String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 ‘Death and the Maiden’: III. Scherzo. Allegro molto – Trio (03:49)
8. Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge  – String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 ‘Death and the Maiden’: IV. Presto (09:04)

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The new album offers the chance to listen simultaneously to four Stradivari instruments and an Amati cello: The Quartetto di Cremona plays the Stradivarius Paganini Quartet, one of the few quartet “sets” completed by Antonio Stradivari and once owned by the legendary violinist Niccola Paganini. Eckart Runge plays a rare cello made by Hieronymus and Antonio Amati in their Cremonese atelier.

After completing the recording cycle of Beethoven’s String Quartets, the Quartetto di Cremona’s new double CD is entirely dedicated to Franz Schubert, presenting two of his latest masterpieces: the String Quartet Death and the Maiden and the String Quintet in C major, with cellist Eckart Runge.