Rózsa & Herrmann: Music for String Quartet

New recordings of little-known chamber music by two giants of Hollywood: the exciting debut on record of the Frankfurt-based ensemble merian. Composer: Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rózsa Artist: Ensemble Merian Stefano Succi (violin I) Olga Yukhananova (violin II) Fred Günther (viola) Ulrich Horn (cello) Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer): More Information: ózsa-herrmann-music-for-string-quartet/ While producing a string of hit scores for MGM such as the Oscar-winning Ben Hur, Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) continued to add to his distinguished catalogue of works in classical forms, often writing in a more abstract and severe style than his late-Romantic music for the movies. Rózsa himself remarked that ‘in 1948, a new style began to appear in my Piano Sonata—more percussive, contrapuntal, aggressive. The String Quartet [No.1, 1950] continued in this vein. Maybe it was an inner