String Quartet no. 8 in B flat, D 112 / String Quartet no. 13 in A minor, D 804

Album by Franz Schubert & Lindsay String Quartet

String Quartet No. 8 in B flat, D.112 and String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D.804 are chamber works by Austrian composer Franz Schubert, composed in 1814 and 1824 respectively. They show Schubert's shift from lighter classical textures and songlike melody in the earlier piece to a more concentrated minor-key intensity, richer harmonic language and denser textures in the later quartet; they occupy a position between his youthful chamber output and his mature middle-period works.