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2015-12-04 15:55:17
Accused violinist resigns from Leipzig Quartet
Stefan Arzberger, who has been on bail in America for eight months since he was charged with attempted murder after an incident in a Manhattan hotel, has resigned from the Leipzig String Quartet. A statement by the quartet said he had taken the decision because he was unsure he could return to Germany by the spring of 2016 and this was affecting the group’s touring plans and stability. Schleppendes Verfahren der US-amerikanische Justiz zwingt Stefan Arzberger zum Verlassen des Leipziger Streichquartetts Die strafrechtliche Klärung im Verfahren gegen den Leipziger Musiker Stefan Arzberger wird von den Justizbehörden in New York City leider nicht aktiv und angemessen betrieben, sodass zeitliche Abläufe nicht prognostizierbar sind. Eine Rückkehr nach Deutschland, etwa im Frühjahr 2016, ist deshalb unsicher. Aus diesem Grund scheidet Stefan Arzberger als Mitglied und Gesellschafter des Leipziger Streichquartetts aus, um seinen Kollegen Planungssicherheit und eine sichere Zukunft zu ermöglichen. Stefan Arzberger […]
2013-05-03 13:50:37
Buntrock/Leipziger Streichquartett (MDG Gold)In his two string quintets Mendelssohn followed Mozart's example in opting for a pair of violas rather than the two cellos that Schubert (and Boccherini before him) had favoured. The works were composed 19 years apart. The first of them, in A major, was finished in 1826 when Mendelssohn was 17, but the Leipzig Quartet play the revised version he produced six years later, in which an intermezzo replaces the original minuet. Yet the buoyancy and clarity of early Mendelssohn remains, especially in the Mozartean grace of the first movement and the delicate wistfulness of the intermezzo that follows it. The B flat major Quintet dates from 1845, and is a very different proposition, sometimes almost orchestral in its scale and weight, with textures that seem to anticipate Brahms. The Leipzig performances of both quintets are certainly not short on accuracy and panache, but in the earlier […]
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