Jazz Articles about Thomas Zehetmair - Ruth Killius

Thomas Zehetmair / Ruth Killius: Manto and Madrigals

by C. Michael Bailey
June 19, 2011

The husband and wife team of violinist Thomas Zehetmair and violist Ruth Killius is best known for its work in the Zehetmair Quartet and, more specifically, for that group's award- winning recording of Schumann's First and Third String Quartets (ECM, 2001). On Manto and Madrigals the creative pair assembles an equally creative recital of duet miniatures from the 20th and 21st Centuries. This is difficult music, requiring something between attention and careful study. Darkly dissonant, the disc's repertoire is challenging ...