To play Stringquartet is the best and most important thing a person can do with his life.
Living with The last String quartets by Beethoven is to devote yourself to the peak of humanity. This is where Beethoven takes us to a level never surpassed before or after.”
Norbert Brainin, 1st violinist of the Amadeus String Quartet, 1947-1987.
 “This, The Gran Partita, was no composition by a performing monkey. This was a music I had never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing …