While com­pos­ing his string quar­tet Der Tod und das Mädchen, the ill Franz Schubert was look­ing death in the eye. This is tan­gi­ble from the ner­vous open­ing part to the demon­ic danse macabre that clos­es the quar­tet. The inter­na­tion­al­ly acclaimed Edding Quartet com­bines Der Tod und das Mädchen with Schubert’s equal­ly rest­less Quartettsatz.