Shostakovich - String quartet n°2 - Borodin SQ I
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This monumental release documents the Emerson String Quartets exceptional longevity and dynamism founded in 1976, they are still as youthfully active and inquisitive as ever 40 years later. Moreover it charts the New York-based ensembles musical breadth, encompassing virtually all of the important repertoire for their formation.This 52 CD collectio... [Read More]
While his symphonies were subjected to scrutiny and censure by the suffocating Soviet government, the string quartets were chamber pieces into which he felt free to pour all his sadness, anger and boldest musical ideas. They are some of the most passionate, deeply affecting works in the classical canon, and these Emerson Quartet performances have w... [Read More]
The second traversal by the Borodin Quartet of the complete String Quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich. Includes a performance of Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, op. 57, with Sviatoslav Richter at the piano. Arguably the greatest quartet cycle since Beethoven's, Dmitri Shostakovich's string quartets abound in psychological subtlety and emotional range.... [Read More]
~ The ultimate “Living Stereo” Collector’s Edition – A celebration of high-fidelity analogue recording ~ All 60 CDs newly remastered from the original 2- and 3-track master tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology ~ First ever release of 48 “Living Stereo” LPs on CD ~ Hardcover bound book with a new introduction by discographer Michael ... [Read More]
The Danish String Quartet, at present the house quartet at both New York's Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and BBC Radio 3, are taking the plunge as folk musicians with their new album on Denmarks national record label Dacapo, Wood Works. Theyre riding a wave of international success with classical quartet playing in the worlds leading concert... [Read More]
This 114 CD Edition encompasses his complete discography for Philips and Decca and includes studio albums, live recordings and radio broadcasts. The set is accompanied by a 200-page book featuring a note by Brendels personal choice of writer, Misha Donat. Complete for the first time includes live recordings and radio broadcasts.200-page booklet wit... [Read More]
It is hard to envisage a more enticing prospect: Shostakovich's densely woven String Quartet No.2 and his deceptively backward-looking Piano Quintet, performed by the stellar Takacs Quartet and Marc-Andre Hamelin, generously notated by David Fanning, and lovingly recorded by Hyperion's Simon Eadon and Andrew Keener team. Seventy minutes of post-Rev... [Read More]
The Brodsky Quartet are less known for their chamber music exploits than for their one collaboration with Elvis Costello, The Juliet Letters. But their varied repertoire--everything from George Crumb to Debussy (along with the odd Björk collaboration)--seems inspired by that other hip string quartet, Kronos. Judging from this set, the best part of... [Read More]
Bart¢k's string quartets are a true cornerstone of quartet repertoire. They communicate on various levels and are supremely effective on all of them. Whether viewed as a cycle or as six individual works, they remain masterpieces of formal design, every bar plainly part of a rounded grand plan, a plan securely placed within a wider framework. They ... [Read More]
Sony Classical celebrates the 2018 centenary of Leonard Bernstein - one of the 20th century's most celebrated, multi-faceted and influential musicians - with a box set devoted to his complete RCA Victor and Columbia Masterworks recordings as pianist. All recordings in this 11 CDs original jacket collection have been newly remastered from the origin... [Read More]
Formed in 1994 at the Royal College of Music in London, the Belcea Quartet has recorded the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók and Britten. For this new Alpha release the ensemble has chosen two works by one of the leading composers of twentieth-century chamber music, Dmitri Shostakovich. The Quartet no.3, of historic importance... [Read More]
Dmitri Shoskakovich (1906-1975) CD 1 No. 2 in A major O. 68 (1944) No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 (1960) No. 13 in B flat minor Op. 138 (1970) CD 2 No. 3 in F major Op. 73 (1946) No. 7 in F sharp minor OP. 108 (1960) No. 9 in E flat major Op. 117 (1964) CD 3 No. 5 in B flat major Op. 92 (1952) No. 11 in F nimor Op. 122 (1966) No. 12 in D flat major (O... [Read More]
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