Searing Lyricism Schubert from Cuarteto Casals - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... I have enjoyed most the slower movements.'

Schubert wrote his earliest quartets for the family circle, in which he played viola. His brother Ferdinand, one of the violinists, has left a delightful account of such gatherings: 'For his father and his elder brothers it was an uncommon pleasure to play quartets with him. This happened chiefly in the holiday months. The youngest of them all was the most sensitive there...

FRANZ SCHUBERT

HARMONIA MUNDI

CHAMBER MUSIC

AUSTRIA