Salagon Quartet - Joseph Martin Kraus: String Quartets (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 339 Mb | Total time: 69:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Carus | # 83.194 | Recorded: 2005
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 339 Mb | Total time: 69:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Carus | # 83.194 | Recorded: 2005
Joseph Martin Kraus has made one of the most impressive comebacks of any composer belonging to an age as distant as his is to the twenty-first century. Though two centuries would pass between his death in 1792 and the eventual revival of his music, within the space of roughly a decade Kraus' 200 or so surviving compositions have practically all been recorded. Carus Verlag in Stuttgart is publishing a critical edition of Kraus' chamber music that does not involve the piano, and in connection with that publication, the newly minted Salagon Quartett has recorded five of Kraus' 10 string quartets for Carus Verlag's in-house label. Six of Kraus' quartets appeared in an early print as his Opus 1 and four others exist in manuscript; in 1992, the Joseph Martin Kraus String Quartet was founded out of the ranks of Concerto Köln to record them all for Cavalli Records.