Quatuor Arod - Schubert: Death and the Maiden String Quartets N0. 4 & 122020 release. "An outstanding album", was Gramophone magazine's verdict on the Arod Quartet's last release, a programme of Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Webern. Remaining in Vienna, the young French quartet goes back to the time of Schubert. "We wanted to explore several stylistic phases in Schubert's life," they explain. The centrepiece is his gripping Quartet No 14 ('Der Tod und das Mdchen' 'Death and the Maiden'), written in the final years of his

which led to a flowering of Neo-Classical musical tendencies

"Done Got Old" and "Lord Have Mercy on Me"

cooperative effort in a warm program of standards that suits their unfettered bebop style

and sacred rituals

And draws a bow from the high classical Christmas Oratorio by Bach to more simple songs from the country side

Kenny Washington-dms

improvisation and much more

One More Tomorrow

and Vasily Kandinsky

the Italian-language serious opera of the eighteenth century

Born and raised on Chicago's south side

virtuoso and festive