Folyondár Dresch Dudás Mihály Quartet

Ensemble Cythera, Mihály Zeke & Marie Vermeulin - Homelands (2021)

Ensemble Cythera, Mihály Zeke & Marie Vermeulin - Homelands (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 226 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:32
Classical, Choral | Label: Paraty

Homelands – A musical voyage into the heart of a rich polyphonic repertoire born out of the union between folklore and art music during the 19 th and 20 th centuries.
Engegard Quartet - Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Olav Anton Thommessen: String Quartets (2015)

Engegård Quartet - Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Olav Anton Thommessen (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 327 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 172 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2101 | Time: 01:12:23

A string quartet was among the very first works that Edvard Grieg presented after completing his studies in 1861, but the Quartet in G minor, Op. 27, was the only such work to be published in his lifetime. In 1878, while composing it, Grieg wrote that ‘it aims at breadth, to soar, and, above all, at vigorous sound’, and the amplitude of the sound is indeed striking: the generous use of double-stops creates an almost orchestral effect, unusual for the genre. This caused some reviewers to criticize the quartet as being unidiomatic, while others, including Liszt, greeted it with enthusiasm. Some thirty years later, when Jean Sibelius composed his D minor quartet Op. 56, he too had previous experience of writing for the medium, but Op. 56 is the only quartet among his mature works. The often used 'nickname' Voces intimae is often taken to refer to the intimate interchange between the four voices in a quartet, but is probably a more specific allusion to a brief passage in the third movement: Sibelius wrote the remark into a score some time after the work had been published.

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 26, 2024
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 259 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 104 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Fantasy Records (0025218623629)

This is the third and final guest appearance by clarinetist Bill Smith in the place of Paul Desmond with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Like the earlier record dates, this 1961 session focuses exclusively on Smith's compositions, resulting in a very different sound for the band than its normal mix of the leader's songs and standards. Smith was a member of Brubeck's adventurous octet of the late '40s and, like the pianist, also studied with French composer Darius Milhaud. So the clarinetist is willing to take chances, utilizing a mute on his instrument in "Pan's Pipes," and having drummer Joe Morello use his timpani sticks on the piano strings in the swinging "The Unihorn." Smith proves himself very much in Desmond's league with his witty solos and equally amusing, pun-filled liner notes…

Smetana Quartet - Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 6, 2024
Smetana Quartet - Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets (2020)

Smetana Quartet - Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2,03 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,15 Gb | Digital booklet | 08:31:53
Classical | Label: Supraphon

The Smetana Quartet are a true legend. For over four decades (1945-1989), the ensemble gained critical acclaim and enthused audiences all over world, particularly in the UK, USA and Japan. They attained perfect chime and extraordinary flexibility in voice leading, resulting in part from their playing the entire repertoire by heart. The quartet performed Beethoven's works throughout their existence - following Smetana, he was the composer on whose music they focused the most and whose complete quartets were in their repertoire from 1974 onwards.
Artemis Quartet - Dvorak, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Piazzolla... (2024)

Artemis Quartet - Dvořák, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Piazzolla… (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 5:42:07 | 1.4 Gb
Genre: Classical

Named after the Greek goddess of hunting and the wilderness, The Artemis Quartett was formed in 1989 in Lübeck, Germany. They are recognized for their chamber music repertoire, most notably Beethoven’s string quartets and are considered to be one of the foremost string quartets in the world. Originally founded by four students of chamber music at Lübeck Conservatory, they came to international prominence when they won first prize at the ARD Wettbewerb in 1996, followed by another first prize at the Premio Borciani six months later.
Cleveland Quartet - The Complete RCA Album Collection (Remastered) (2023)

Cleveland Quartet - The Complete RCA Album Collection (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) - 5.4 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 2.6 GB
19:43:29 | Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal / Sony Classical

Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration. “A quartet in the great tradition,” declared Stereo Review’s critic, commenting on the Cleveland’s Beethoven for RCA Victor, their exclusive label between 1972 and 1987.
Artemis Quartet - Johannes Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 (2015)

Artemis Quartet - Johannes Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 292 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 158 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Erato | # 0825646126637 | Time: 01:08:22

GRAMOPHONE Magazine Editor's Choice - October 2015.The Artemis Quartet pairs Brahms’ intense first quartet with his lighter-spirited third quartet, both works that the Artemis’ cellist, Eckart Runge, describes as “remarkable and multi-faceted”. He says that “Brahms marries a Romantic spirit with the structure and forms of Classicism. There is an almost symphonic approach in the writing, but at the same time the quartets are imbued with a sense of warmth, immediacy, friendship and love that is interwoven with a more spiritual, timeless beauty”.
Ragazze Quartet - But Not My Soul: Price, Dvořák & Giddens (2024)

Ragazze Quartet - But Not My Soul: Price, Dvořák & Giddens (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 297 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 144 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:51
Classical | Label: Channel Classics Records

Ragazze Quartet perform works by two female composers Rhiannon Giddens (*1977) and Florence Price (1887-1953), combined with the ‘American’ String Quartet No.12 by Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904). Florence Price was the first African-American woman to be recognized for her symphonies, yet her music was forgotten for many years. Her String Quartet No.2 is a mix of European romanticism, her ‘Southern’ roots, the emerging blues and African-American spirituals. The title of the album derives from a song Rhiannon Giddens wrote after seeing a 19th-century advertisement for a 22-year-old female slave whose 9-month-old baby was also for sale, but 'at the purchaser’s option'.
Keeril Makan - In Sound (2008) with Kronos Quartet and Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band

Keeril Makan - In Sound (2008)
with Kronos Quartet and Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 243 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 120 Mb
Label: Tzadik | # TZ8053 | Time: 00:48:11 | Scans included
Modern Creative, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Chamber Music

The strength of these pieces by American composer Keeril Makan is that they fall outside the boxes of minimalism, abstract electronic music, and world-influenced styles. The word visceral keeps coming up in his descriptions of his own music, which revels in sheer sound and proceeds in large, physical gestures with, Makan says blithely, "no formal logic other than careful attunement to what the ear and body dictate." Paradoxically, though, it's full of surprises. The three works on the album all fall loosely under the chamber music banner and are all recognizably by the same composer, but each has a different method.
Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet - Joaquin Turina: Piano Quartet Op. 67; Piano Quintet Op. 1; Piano Sextet Op. 7 (1994)

Joaquín Turina: Volume IV - Chamber Works
Piano Quartet Op. 67; Piano Quintet Op. 1; Piano Sextet Op. 7 "Scème Andalouse" (1994)
Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet; Christine Busch, violin; Anna Barbara Duetschler, viola

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 204 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 125 Mb | Scans ~ 58 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Claves | # CD 50-9403 | Time: 00:54:21

Turina was a Spanish composer who, along with Manuel de Falla and Isaac Albéniz, revitalized his nation's music in the early 20th century.