Bartok String Quartets Best Recordings - April 2024

Emerson String Quartet - Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon [52 CD][Box Set]

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 collection includes their complete output on DG and features highlights such as the Nine Grammy Awards, Three Gramophone Magazine Awards; complete cycles by Shostakovich, Beethoven and Bartok; plus String Quartets by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Schubert and many more... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01DB7DV9A
• UPC: 028947959823
• ASIN: B01DB7DV9A
• Brand: CD
• Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon

Complete String Quartets

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• ASIN: B00199PNFS
• UPC: 034061103028
• ASIN: B00199PNFS
• Brand: TROY - STATI UNITI
• Manufacturer: Albany Records

Beethoven: Complete String Quartets

To celebrate the release of The Belcea Quartets complete Brahms quartets, Alpha is reissuing the ensembles recording of the complete Beethoven quartets. The ensemble wrote of this 8-disc project: Beethovens music has been at the center of our life as a quartet from our very first rehearsalThese sixteen quartets written some two hundred years ago form one of the most complete and powerful musical statements ever made. The completeness lies in their unprecedented intensity and in the astonishing development that can be traced between the early and the late works. The Belcea Quartet has been desc... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01IWW6FN8
• ASIN: B01IWW6FN8
• Brand: Alpha
• Manufacturer: Alpha

Brahms: Chamber Works

ONYXC 4093 (4cd); ONYX CLASSICS - Inghilterra; Classica da camera

• ASIN: B0096YJPSO
• UPC: 880040409328
• ASIN: B0096YJPSO
• Brand: ONYX CLASSICS
• Manufacturer: ONYX CLASSICS

Bartok Works for Orchestra - Concerto for Orchestra; Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Minnesota Orchestra & Stanislaw Skrowacz ~ Works For Orchestra

• ASIN: B000001K6A
• UPC: 047163301520
• ASIN: B000001K6A
• Brand: Vox
• Manufacturer: Vox

The Hungarian String Quartet and Zoltan Szekely (Historical Recordings and Previously Unissued Public Performances, 1937-1968)

Brand NEW. Sealed.

• ASIN: B0007MSV52
• UPC: 017685116124
• ASIN: B0007MSV52
• Manufacturer: Music & Arts Programs

CD, Mozart String Quartets: A Major K464, C Major K465, Bartok Quartet

• ASIN: B001RVMC7U
• ASIN: B001RVMC7U
• Brand: White Label
• Manufacturer: HRC Recording

Donald Erb is the composer of some of the most colorful and imaginative music to come out of America in the late 20th century. The Ohio native, head of the Cleveland Institute of Music composition department until his retirement in 1996, has never been beholden to any one style or school, following instead a strong native instinct for timbre and texture which has led him to reinforce the orchestra with electronics and unusual instruments such as harmonicas or tuned wine glasses. The String Quartet No. 3 recalls Bartok in its wealth of bowing effects, clusters and glissandi, as well as its structural use of small motivic cells, finally revealing at its heart an unexpected quotation of the Bible school hymn 'Jesus Loves Me,' while the title track's sound world is unique to Jeffrey Krieger's electronic cello, whose vocabulary is extended with dizzying cascades of echo and cavernous reverb.

DONALD ERB: SUDDENLY IT'S EVENING

• UPC: 3467989