Fine Arts Quartet and Xiayin Wang Record Schumann Chamber Music for Naxos
February 4, 2011

The world-renowned Fine Arts Quartet, which celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2011, and the exciting young Chinese pianist Xiayin Wang, have just recorded three chamber masterpieces by Robert Schumann: the Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet, andMärchenerzählungen. Sessions for this CD, the Quartet’s 11th for Naxos, took place from 13–16 December 2010 at the American Academy of the Arts and Letters in New York and were produced and engineered by Grammy^® Award winner Steven Epstein.