Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7

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Executing one of the most structurally dense works of early modernism, The Juilliard String Quartet navigates Schoenberg's sprawling, single-movement composition with intense clarity and technical precision. The performance brilliantly captures the late-romantic chromaticism pushing at the absolute boundaries of traditional tonality just before the composer's leap into pure atonality. It is considered a definitive interpretation of early 20th-century European chamber literature.