Rosamunde Quartett
The Munich-based Rosamunde Quartett, formed in 1992, played the great quartet literature of the past as well as new music: their repertoire extended from Haydn to Webern to Silvestrov and Mansurian.
From 1997 the Rosamunde Quartett recorded exclusively for ECM New Series. The previous year, their ECM debut, a recording of Webern, Shostakovich and Burian, won the German Record Critics' Award. Their CD of The Seven Words of Jesus Christ by Haydn is widely recognised as a reference recording; The Strad said it “perfectly captures the devotional gravity the work requires”. Their disc of works by Ukranian composer Valentin Silvestrov was nominated for a Grammy (Best Chamber Music Performance) and their rendition of string quartets by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher again received the German Critics’ prize. In 2009 they released Othmar Schoeck’s Notturno in collaboration with baritone Christian Gerhaher, and more than a decade earlier they revisited Dino Saluzzi’s classic, Kultrum, in [...]
The Munich-based Rosamunde Quartett, formed in 1992, played the great quartet literature of the past as well as new music: their repertoire extended from Haydn to Webern to Silvestrov and Mansurian.
From 1997 the Rosamunde Quartett recorded exclusively for ECM New Series. The previous year, their ECM debut, a recording of Webern, Shostakovich and Burian, won the German Record Critics' Award. Their CD of The Seven Words of Jesus Christ by Haydn is widely recognised as a reference recording; The Strad said it “perfectly captures the devotional gravity the work requires”. Their disc of works by Ukranian composer Valentin Silvestrov was nominated for a Grammy (Best Chamber Music Performance) and their rendition of string quartets by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher again received the German Critics’ prize. In 2009 they released Othmar Schoeck’s Notturno in collaboration with baritone Christian Gerhaher, and more than a decade earlier they revisited Dino Saluzzi’s classic, Kultrum, in the company of the great bandoneonist.
The original line-up of the quartet was Andreas Reiner and Simon Fordham (violins); Helmut Nicolai (viola); and Anja Lechner (violoncello). When Simon Fordham left in 2006, he was replaced by Diane Pascal. The quartet disbanded in 2009.
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