Ensemble 360

SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D.810 Death and the Maiden

Members of Ensemble 360 perform a remarkable pillar of the chamber music repertoire, Schubert’s Death and the Maiden. It is a work of bleak vision and unremitting foreboding, written by the composer in 1824 after a period of sickness and with the realisation that he would never fully recover. It was not played in public during Schubert’s lifetime but ten years after Schubert's death, Schumann wrote that: “only the excellence of such a work as Schubert’s D minor Quartet ... can console us for the early and grievous death of this first-born of Beethoven; in a few years he achieved and perfected things as no one before him.” Part of Love and War Music in the Round’s Festival of World Class Chamber Music.