“Schubert’s Echo” features three works never before recorded together: Schubert’s monumental Quartet in G, D.887, Berg’s dramatic, atonal Quartet Op. 3 and Webern’s visionary Fünf Sätze, Op. 5 (Five Movements, Op. 5). Schubert’s influence can be heard throughout the entire recording. These works, passionately performed by the American String Quartet (Peter Winograd, violin; Laurie Carney, violin; Daniel Avshalomov, viola; Wolfram Koessel, cello) reveal, in the context of each other, the continuum that is the quartet repertoire. The quartet celebrates its 35th anniversary this 2010-2011 season. Their sophisticated, masterful performances invite you to hear these incredible works anew. Listening to this innovative recording, we’re sure that you too, will hear the echoes.