Modigliani Quartet - Schubert: The Complete String QuartetsAs a young chorister, the fourteen year old Franz Schubert penned his first string quartets, a genre that he would continue to explore until the last years of his life. Fifteen quartets, of remarkable originality and bewitching lyricism, entered into history, bearing at once the legacy of the Classical Era and a vision of the future. These works are marked by the tides of life disillusion, illness, but also the flourishing of a magisterial mind. "The

he sought to bridge the gap between genres

some written by herself

The audience was drawn in and engaged to a degree that became obvious when the end of Evan Parker's short unaccompanied soprano solo

He thought it would be great to get them out here to NY and into the studio with El Michels

it might seem that staying locked in behind closed doors would be the safest thing to do

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Music moves in measured steps

The LOFT was packed that night

Weaving together hidden episodes of history and verité footage

" says Laurence Equilbey

so as to exchange concepts and ideas and feed the sum of this interaction into the recording

Paradigmes is an album that lives in the moment