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    Kuss Quartett - Franz Schubert: String Quartet No.14 'Death and the Maiden' (2024)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Kuss Quartett - Franz Schubert: String Quartet No.14 'Death and the Maiden' (2024)

    Kuss Quartett - Schubert: String Quartet No.14 'Death and the Maiden'; Ter Schiphorst: Sei gutes Muts; Andre: 7 Pieces for String Quartet (2024)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 257 Mb | Total time: 56:58 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics | # RCD1104 | Recorded: 2023

    For their latest album for Rubicon, the Berlin based Kuss Quartet have programmed Schubert’s quartet ‘Death and the Maiden’ with two contemporary works by composers the quartet have often championed. Schubert’s disturbing, death obsessed quartet, composed in the winter of 1822 when the composer was suffering from syphilis that would eventually claim him at the age of 31, has become one of his most performed works. The opening bars are electrifying, and without doubt, the early romantic age in music had dawned.

    Quatuor Vegh - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (8CD) (1987)

    Posted By: tirexiss
    Quatuor Vegh - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (8CD) (1987)

    Quatuor Vegh - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (8CD) (1987)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 08:46:34 | 2,8 Gb
    Genre: Classical | Label: Auvidis Naïve | Catalog: V4871

    These sterling performances have been high among the prime available Beethoven Quartet sets since their initial appearance in the early 1970s as sought-after Telefunken LPs. Naïve’s booklet and transfers are the same as those of the 1987 Auvidis Valois set. So what’s this release got that the previous one didn’t? A bargain price, with the eight CDs marked down to the price of four. These are happy days for Beethoven Quartet lovers: my three favorite complete sets (the others are the Quartetto Italiano on Philips and the Talich on Calliope) are all now available at midprice.

    Calidore String Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Early Quartets: Op.18 (2025)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Calidore String Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Early Quartets: Op.18 (2025)

    Calidore String Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Early Quartets: Op.18 (2025)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 723 Mb | Total time: 02:36:28 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD883 | Recorded: 2021-2023

    The third and final instalment in their award-winning series, the Calidore Quartet return with a three-disc release of Beethoven Early Quartets. Their previous Beethoven recordings have been described as ‘highly collectible’ by BBC Music Magazine. The first album of Late Quartets won the Chamber Music Award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2024, and the second awarded Recording of the Month by Gramophone Magazine. “Our interpretation speaks to the influences of our teachers and the great traditions associated with this repertoire, but also to that of our own generation, contemporary research, style and experience.

    Krystian Zimerman, Maria Nowak, Katarzyna Budnik, Yuya Okamoto - Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (2025)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Krystian Zimerman, Maria Nowak, Katarzyna Budnik, Yuya Okamoto - Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (2025)

    Krystian Zimerman, Maria Nowak, Katarzyna Budnik, Yuya Okamoto - Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (2025)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 79:10 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 4650 | Recorded: 2021, 2023

    Polish-Swiss pianist Krystian Zimerman releases a further pre-release track of his upcoming album, on which he lays his focus on Brahms’s sometimes overlooked Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3, in order to give them the attention they deserve. For this recording Zimerman, whose passion for chamber music goes back to his childhood and has accompanied him ever since, teamed up with cellist Yuya Okamoto, violinist Maria Nowak and violist Katarzyna Budnik.

    Arcadia Quartet - Mieczysław Weinberg: String Quartets, Vol.4: Nos. 6, 13 & 15 (2024)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Arcadia Quartet - Mieczysław Weinberg: String Quartets, Vol.4: Nos. 6, 13 & 15 (2024)

    Arcadia Quartet - Mieczysław Weinberg: String Quartets, Vol.4: Nos. 6, 13 & 15 (2024)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 75:43 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records | # CHAN 20281 | Recorded: 2023

    The Arcadia Quartet’s acclaimed survey of Weinberg’s String Quartets continues with this fourth volume containing Quartets nos 6, 13, and 15.

    Doric String Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol.2: Op.18 Nos.2 & 5; Op.59 No.2; Op.130; Op.133 (2024)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Doric String Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol.2: Op.18 Nos.2 & 5; Op.59 No.2; Op.130; Op.133 (2024)

    Doric String Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol.2: Op.18 Nos.2 & 5; Op.59 No.2; Op.130; Op.133 (2024)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 711 Mb | Total time: 02:36:35 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records | # CHAN 20300(2) | Recorded: 2023, 2024

    For this second volume of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Doric String Quartet has combined one middle period, one late, and two early quartets to create a programme that works on its own terms, as well as forming part of the complete cycle. The musicians start off with a vivid performance of Op. 18 No. 2, following it with the Quartet, Op. 130, in which, as finale, they perform the Große Fugue (Op. 133), as Beethoven long contemplated it.

    Elisabeth Westenholz, Tutter Givskov, Lars Grunth, Asger Lund Christiansen - Friedrich Kuhlau: Complete Piano Quartets (1997)

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    Elisabeth Westenholz, Tutter Givskov, Lars Grunth, Asger Lund Christiansen - Friedrich Kuhlau: Complete Piano Quartets (1997)

    Elisabeth Westenholz, Tutter Givskov, Lars Grunth, Asger Lund Christiansen - Friedrich Kuhlau: Complete Piano Quartets (1997)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 487 Mb | Total time: 65:39+57:45 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Dacapo | # 8.224044-45 | Recorded: 1996

    Born near Hanover, Kuhlau settled in Denmark in 1810 as a pianist and composer, winning an important position in Danish music of the period and a reputation as a concert pianist. Much of his music was destroyed in a fire in 1832.

    Marmen Quartet - Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (2025)

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    Marmen Quartet - Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (2025)

    Marmen Quartet - Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (2025)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 246 Mb | Total time: 67:59 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-SACD-2693 | Recorded: 2023

    For its first recording for BIS Records, the Marmen Quartet tackles three major works from the twentieth-century string quartet literature. The two quartets by György Ligeti belong to two different periods in the composer’s output. Written before Ligeti left Hungary and emigrated to the West, the First, subtitled ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’, represents the peak of his ‘Hungarian’ period. Regarded as a virtuoso exercise, the work reveals the influences of Béla Bartók, particularly from his Third and Fourth Quartets.

    Quatuor Vegh - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (8CD) (1987)

    Posted By: tirexiss
    Quatuor Vegh - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (8CD) (1987)

    Quatuor Vegh - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (8CD) (1987)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 08:46:34 | 2,8 Gb
    Genre: Classical | Label: Auvidis Naïve | Catalog: V4871

    These sterling performances have been high among the prime available Beethoven Quartet sets since their initial appearance in the early 1970s as sought-after Telefunken LPs. Naïve’s booklet and transfers are the same as those of the 1987 Auvidis Valois set. So what’s this release got that the previous one didn’t? A bargain price, with the eight CDs marked down to the price of four. These are happy days for Beethoven Quartet lovers: my three favorite complete sets (the others are the Quartetto Italiano on Philips and the Talich on Calliope) are all now available at midprice.

    Melos Quartett - Sibelius & Verdi: Quatuors a cordes (1987)

    Posted By: tirexiss
    Melos Quartett - Sibelius & Verdi: Quatuors a cordes (1987)

    Melos Quartett - Sibelius & Verdi: Quatuors a cordes (1987)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 52:25 | 244 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: HMA 1951671

    Both quartets on this disc are by composers who were not known for their chamber music, and in the case of Verdi, the E minor quartet stands completely outside his usual mode of composition. The Sibelius quartet, while it veers far from the well worn path of late-romantic chamber music, lies comfortably within its composer's milieu, with its angular harmonies, stark melodies, and overall enigmatic mood.

    Richard Watkins - Robert Simpson: Horn Trio, Horn Quartet (1993)

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    Richard Watkins - Robert Simpson: Horn Trio, Horn Quartet (1993)

    Richard Watkins - Robert Simpson: Horn Trio, Horn Quartet (1993)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 50:07 | 230 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: 66695

    These chamber works center around the horn as a chamber instrument. The horn contributes an interesting character to the music, especially when there is a piano employed. The String Trio of 1984 is here scored for horn, violin, and piano. The Horn Quartet of 1975 is scored for horn, violin, cello, and piano. The Trio is more representative of Simpson's mature style; it tends more toward a melodic polytonality. His Horn Quartet is more rugged, and the scales are tipped toward atonality. Extremely interesting postmodern works.

    Nordic String Quartet - Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Complete String Quartets, vol.1 (2019)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Nordic String Quartet - Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Complete String Quartets, vol.1 (2019)

    Nordic String Quartet - Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Complete String Quartets, vol.1 (2019)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 247 Mb | Total time: 62:39 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Dacapo | 8.226217 | Recorded: 2017, 2018

    Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen wrote his first three string quartets in 1959 and his 14th and last in 2013, three years before he died. This first volume in a new cycle comes from an ensemble coached by Tim Frederiksen (he who gave us the Nightingale Quartet) at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. The Nordic Quartet gave their graduation performance at the Academy last autumn.

    Pacifica Quartet - The Soviet Experience, Vol. 2: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries (2012)

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    Pacifica Quartet - The Soviet Experience, Vol. 2: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries (2012)

    Pacifica Quartet - The Soviet Experience, Vol. 2: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries (2012)
    dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 564 Mb | Total time: 75:37+53:40 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Cedille | # CDR90000-130 | Recorded: 2010-2011

    This is the second installment in the Pacifica Quartet’s highly anticipated, four–volume CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets: The Soviet Experience: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries. The Soviet Experience is the first Shostakovich quartet cycle to include works by other important composers of the Soviet era, adding variety and perspective to the listening experience.

    Pražák Quartet - Bedřich Smetana: String Quartets; From the Homeland (1999)

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    Pražák Quartet - Bedřich Smetana: String Quartets; From the Homeland (1999)

    Pražák Quartet - Bedřich Smetana: String Quartets; From the Homeland (1999)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 265 Mb | Total time: 58:25 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | PRD 250 128 | Recorded: 1998-1999

    Classical in its respect for established forms, romantic in its clearly autobiographical nature, the chamber music by the composer of The Bartered Bride is not plentiful, especially when compared with the output of his younger, immediate successor, Antonfn Dvoiik, who returned to the string quaner form rhroughout his creative life, producing fifteen between 1862 and 1895. Well removed from absolute music - as would be Leoš Janáček's after him -, Smetana's surviving chamber catalogue consists of only four works that make up a rare case of psychological programme music. The Piano Trio(1855) already represented a sort of tombeau for the small daughter he had recently lost to scarlet fever.

    Pražák Quartet - Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 Op. 51/2, String Quintet No. 2 Op. 111 (2006)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Pražák Quartet - Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 Op. 51/2, String Quintet No. 2 Op. 111 (2006)

    Pražák Quartet - Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 Op. 51/2, String Quintet No. 2 Op. 111 (2006)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 61:26 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | PRD/DSD 250 236 | Recorded: 2009, 2010

    Written more than 15 years apart, these two scores, juxtaposed here for the first time, successively illustrate the somewhat morose ‘Nordic’ inspiration of the composer of Ein deutsches Requiem, then a more intimate poetic feeling, and finally a communicative serenity, the headiness of a ‘Hungarian’ dance in the Quartet, a sort of wild csárdás with quasi-orchestral force in the coda of the Quintet.