The award-winning Danish String Quartet launches its third ECM release with a five-album series called Prism. In this series, they combine one of Beethoven's late string quartets with a thematically related fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach and another significant work from the quartet repertoire.
The first installment of the series, Prism 1, features Beethoven's first late quartet, Opus 127 in E-flat major, Bach's fugue in the same key (arranged by Mozart), and Dmitri Shostakovich's last string quartet, No. 15, in E-flat minor.