The Jeunesse MehrWERT Prize of the Erste Bank was awarded for the first time to the Adamas Quartet in 2013. A major concern of these...

The Jeunesse MehrWERT Prize of the Erste Bank was awarded for the first time to the Adamas Quartet in 2013. A major concern of these four young musicians is the treatment of outlawed music, works termed as degenerate and banned in Germany beginning in the 1930s. Against this backdrop, String Quartet No. 2, op. 7 ‘From the Monkey Mountains’ by the Czech composer Pavel Haas and the String Quartet No. 2, op. 26 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold were selected for this debut CD. The already widely acclaimed ensemble opens with the Quartet op. 64/5 by Joseph Haydn, the ‘Lark’s Quartet’.