Schubert composed wonderful chamber music and this quartet is one of the best ever written. All the great groups have recorded it so there are many wonderful versions to choose from including the Lindsays who won a Gramaphone "Rosette",
Berg who Jim Svejda likes, and the
Busch monaural recording which some say is the best performance ever recorded. The Julliard RCA version on vinyl was highly regarded and was released as a CD on the Testament and Odyssey labels, but not yet available for streaming. If you go searching for this quartet it is often called "Der Tod und das Mädchen", or String Quartet 14 or by its "legal"catalog name of D810, aka D.810 or D. 810. Alas there is no agreed upon naming convention for classical titles nor composer's names. Below is the Fine Arts Quartet version. This quartet has been performing for 50 years through changes in members and has been blessed with great engineering and labels from the beginning.
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