It was instructive to compare this account of the Verdi with the Melos Quartet’s 1998 recording. The Schumann’s first movement gives the impression of an operatic conflict, the lyrical main themes ...

Of course, the Melos score over both the Quartetto Italiano and the Alban ... However, these are all coupled quite differently: the Calliope set offering a middle- and late-period quartet together. Of ...