Schuppanzigh Quartett - String Quartets 4The fourth installment of our Ferdinand Ries Edition with the Schuppanzigh Quartet presents two selected works that underscore the composer's great importance! Throughout his life, Ries, a student of Beethoven, was preoccupied with the composition of string quartets and quintets. The C major String Quintet op. 37 was composed in 1809 and dedicated to the violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh, who had made a name for himself in Vienna as the primarius of the

passionate duets and heartrending lamentations

with an unappeasable ambition and a ravenous hunger for the now

Fiddler Steve Wickham

he has been partnered by Susanna Mälkki

which contributed to his approach as a pioneer of improvisational stand-up comedy

obscure compilation appearances and previously unheard live recordings spanning 1990-1992

The object of the adaptation to the flute was not a well-known work

Max Reger and Richard Strauss

Most widely known as a first call sideman with the likes of the late Michael Brecker and Chris Potter

Noel Bridgeman (accordion

a club pre-game

TheNew York Times' Vivien Schweitzer wrote that the choirs'performed with a buoyant pulse and energetic finesse'