Schumann: String Quartet No 3; Berg: Lyric Suite, etc CD review – Quartet Gerhard make a hugely impressive debut

Quartet Gerhard
(Harmonia Mundi)The Nova series is Harmonia Mundi’s new showcase for young talent. The five discs in the initial batch of releases range from choral music of the Portuguese baroque to 20th-century string quartets, and all the artists involved will receive promotional and logistic support for their concert appearances. Among them are the Quartet Gerhard, a group of Catalan musicians who named themselves after Roberto Gerhard, one of the most inexplicably neglected of all mid