Best Haydn String Quartet Recordings - April 2024

Haydn: The String Quartets (7CD)

“One has never heard them surpassed, and rarely equalled,” wrote The Times of Belgium’s Pro Arte Quartet in 1925. The ensemble’s pioneering project to record the complete Haydn quartets was interrupted by World War II, but their interpretations of the composer’s music were destined for immortality. As Gramophone wrote in 1936: “The Pro Arte people have that awareness which is one of the prerogatives of the true artist ... The variety of expression is wonderful and the recording as perfect as one could wish.” These recordings have now been remastered in 24BIT-96kHz digital sound.

• ASIN: B071FL96LX
• UPC: 190295869182
• ASIN: B071FL96LX
• Brand: Warner Bros.
• Manufacturer: Warner Classics/Parlophone

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

Haydn: String Quartets Op.76, Nos.1-3

Quatuor Kodaly

• ASIN: B0000013OP
• UPC: 730099531429
• ASIN: B0000013OP
• Brand: Naxos
• Manufacturer: Naxos

Big Beethoven Box

• ASIN: B00AOMZHSO
• ASIN: B00AOMZHSO
• Manufacturer: eOne Music

Wood Works

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 halls from Lincoln Center to Wigmore Hall. The quartets video of an old bridal piece from Danish Sønderho has spread like wildfire on YouTube with more than 50,000 viewings. Theyre the darlings of the press with classical reviewers, and in February... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00K12RA3C
• UPC: 636943608128
• ASIN: B00K12RA3C
• Brand: Da Capo
• Manufacturer: Dacapo Classical

Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets [7 CD/Blu-Ray Audio/DVD]

Since its formation in 1975, the Takács Quartet has been recognized as one of the world's leading string quartets. Their award-winning recordings include the complete Beethoven String Quartets for Decca, recorded between 2002 and 2004. Decca Classics celebrates the acclaimed quartet with this multi-media presentation of the Beethoven quartets on 7 CDs, 1 Blu-ray Audio disc, a bonus DVD and a 104-page booklet.

• ASIN: B01N4MFPV0
• UPC: 028948313174
• ASIN: B01N4MFPV0
• Manufacturer: Decca

Quartetto Italiano - Complete Philips & Decca Recordings [37 CD][Limited Edition]

Founded 70 years ago by Paolo Borciani, Elisa Pegreffi, Lionello Forzanti and Franco Rossi, Quartetto Italiano is one of the finest string quartets of the 20th century. The group recorded almost exclusively for Philips Classics, leaving a legacy admired for its insight and technical brilliance. This 37CD Box Set celebrates the artistic achievements of the Quartet by presenting their complete recordings on Decca, Philips and DG. Featured are the legendary Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms cycles as well as many other interpretations that never fail to astonish including their Debussy & Ravel debut r... [Read More]

• ASIN: B013L20N4G
• UPC: 028947888246
• ASIN: B013L20N4G
• Brand: DECCA,MUSICA DA CAMERA,VARI,
• Manufacturer: Decca

Haydn: String Quartets, Op 71 & 74

• ASIN: B0009NSDWK
• UPC: 699675165024
• ASIN: B0009NSDWK
• Manufacturer: Vanguard Classics

String Quartets 4-6

With his late string quartets, Haydn's mastery of convention had grown to the point that his imagination was utterly unfettered, illustrating Robert Frost's famous dictum that "freedom is working easy in harness." On these recordings dating from 1987 and 1988, the Takacs Quartet, a flamboyant ensemble founded in 1975, plays the six Opus 76 essays in that spirit. Their highly profiled accounts possess exceptional expressive intensity, but are always in good taste. Fittingly, these more public expressions of Haydn's genius have been captured in reverberant spaces--the Schubertsaal of Vienna's Ko... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0000041VO
• UPC: 028942546721
• ASIN: B0000041VO
• Manufacturer: Polygram Records

Ludwig van Beethoven Complete String Quartets

This single volume contains all the string quartets of Beethoven: the six quartets of Opus 18; the three quartets of Opus 59; Opera 74 and 95; and the late quartets, Opera 127, 130, 131, 132, and 135. The volume concludes with the Grosse Fuge, Opus 133.The music is photographically reprinted from the Breitkopf & Härtel printed score, still considered the standard, authoritative edition for the Beethoven quartets. Noteheads in this edition have been reproduced in a size large enough to be read easily from a music stand or the keyboard, and margins and spaces between staves are conveniently wid... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486223612
• UPC: 800759223619
• ASIN: 0486223612
• ISBN: 0486223612
• Brand: Dover Publications
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Big Chamber Music Box, Volume 1

• ASIN: B01DYWPT6A
• ASIN: B01DYWPT6A
• Manufacturer: eOne Music

Classical Masterpieces of the Millennium [20 CD Set]

An extraordinary 20-CD collection of great works by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, J. Strauss, R. Strauss, Schumann, Wagner, Dvorak, Grieg and Liszt. It also features worldrenowned artists such as Sir Neville Marriner, Martha Argerich, Ivo Pogorelich, Hermann Prey, Reiner Goldberg, Sylvia Sass, Jochen Kowalski, Peter Schreler and many more. This exquisite, copper metallic, deluxe boxed set is the perfect gift for the classical music neophyte.

• ASIN: B00000K1C9
• UPC: 018111956420
• ASIN: B00000K1C9
• Manufacturer: Delta

GLASS, PHILIP: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 5

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• ASIN: B000005J35
• UPC: 075597935622
• ASIN: B000005J35
• Brand: NONESUCH
• Manufacturer: Nonesuch

A Late Quartet [Blu-ray]

The four members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. Set in iconic New York City, this is the story of four musicians, bound together by their passion for music and long years of working together. But when their patriarch Peter is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the repercussions hit the group deeper than they could imagine. First and second violinists Robert and Daniel row over first chair, Robert and violist Juliette's marriage hits the rocks when he has an affair, and their headstrong daughter embarks ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00AQTY3JO
• UPC: 024543853862
• ASIN: B00AQTY3JO
• Brand: TCFHE
• Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox

Carl Czerny: String Quarlets - Sheridan Ensemble

Known as a piano teacher, with whose works almost every piano pupil should be familiar and possibly also as a pupil of Beethoven, Carl Czerny enjoys practically no fame as a composer today. The composing maniac (round about 800 published works) acquired a great reputation (and wealth) from piano teaching and writing educational works for the piano and compositions the market expected from him and from which he earned a lot of money. At the moment, seven quartets are recorded, four of which were probably intended for publication. Czerny composed in the tradition of Haydn and Beethoven. Echoes o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00T73GMOE
• UPC: 845221052342
• ASIN: B00T73GMOE
• Brand: Capriccio
• Manufacturer: Capriccio

There is an unexplored world of music for the string quartet that is perfectly suited as encore pieces. Whether they are movements from complete string quartets or independent pieces, there is much beautiful music worth exploring in this genre.Franz Joseph Haydn has been called the father of the string quartet, so it's fitting that the program opens with the charming Andante from his Quartet in F, Op. 3 no. 5. A more energetic side of the composer is also presented with the bouncy Rondo from his Quartet in C, Op. 33 no. 3. One composer not usually associated with chamber music is Giacomo Puccini. His 'Crisantemi' is an elegiac study in honor of the Duke of Savoy. The piece is eminently moving and beautifully performed by the Delmￃﾩ Quartet. Eastern European music is well represented with memorable quartet movements by Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Dvorak and Suk. Because of its breadth of repertoire, this is a perfect recording for chamber music neophytes and veterans alike.

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• UPC: 3452858

Haydn String Quartets

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• UPC: 29103137