Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D956

“Like the augmented Alban Berg Quartet in their EMI recording of Schubert's Quintet, the Artemis and Truls Mørk keep romantic expressiveness, dramatic urgency and a classical sense of architecture in fine equilibrium.” The Telegraph, 12th April 2008

“The Artemis Quartet combines fullness, quality and great transparency of sound and well-moulded suppleness of line with an overwhelming musical eloquence ... With Truls Mørk as second cellist the ensemble achieved an unprecedented inner breadth and a dark-hued and subtly shaded fullness of sound.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“[Artemis Quartet and Morks'] playing is energetically graceful and blessed with a spectacular dynamic range (very helpful in the long paragraphs of the C major Quintet, D 956). Nothing is more feverish than the opening Quartettsatz; and nothing sounds more beautiful than the Quintet’s adagio. A starry extra cellist, Mork plays very much as one of the team.” The Times, 11th April 2008 ****

“…though Truls Mørk, the extra cellist, does his best to contribute some bite. My impression is that the players are too seduced by the surface glories of the music to see what lies underneath.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 **

“This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill and sensitivity and unfailingly musical.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2008

"incredibly good value for money" - Classic CD

“Everything's very well done here: the first movement unforced in its melodic flow, the Adagio calm, and clear in the outer sections and powerful in the middle, the Scherzo lively and the trio eloquent, the finale never rushed.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2008

Profil are proud to present their latest release; a collaboration between Daniel Müller-Schott and the Vogler Quartet of string music played to the highest standard. Classics Today have praised Müller-Schott for his “awesome virtuoso brilliance” and The Guardian rate the Vogler Quartet “in the highest category of contemporary string quartets.” On a previous release The Guardian also wrote: “They play with a wonderful expressive ease and warmth and possess the unteachable knack of being able to communicate everything they do directly and unaffectedly. Their performances are marvels of eloquent phrasing and subtle co-ordination, instinctive music-making of the very highest class.”