Vision String Quartet; Bryan Cheng cello

Much ink has been spent on speculations about whether Schubert knew that he was dying as he composed his String Quintet. While its transcendent slow movement owns the character of a tragic farewell, the piece overall stands as a celebration of life in all its emotional complexities and paradoxes. Bryan Cheng, hailed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for the ‘otherworldly intimacy’ of his playing, joins the Vision String Quartet, famed for their fearless artistry, in Schubert’s immortal masterwork.