Léner String Quartet

Ungarisches Streichquartett - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ungarisches Streichquartett - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 07:58:14 minutes | 7,12 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The international reputation of the Hungarian String Quartet is undisputed. It owes not least to his recording of all Beethoven's string quartets from 1953. Now the recording, which has not been available for a long time, has been re-released.

Borodin Quartet - Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets (2012)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Nov. 18, 2019
Borodin Quartet - Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets (2012)

Borodin Quartet - Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 54:57 | 257 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | Catalog: 1001973

I reviewed this recording a decade ago ( Fanfare 26:1) when it was issued on Chandos 9980. As that album is still available, I’m left wondering why Melodiya, a label with only moderate distribution, would want to go up with a rerelease of something already in Chandos’s active catalog. Sonically, there’s next to nothing to choose between them. The Chandos is reproduced at a slightly higher volume in the Debussy, but otherwise there isn’t any significant difference. The Ravel still suffers from miking that’s a touch too distant, an issue corrected in the Debussy. Pricewise, they are competitive.

Franz Schubert - Chamber Music (4CD) (2001)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at July 31, 2019
Franz Schubert - Chamber Music (4CD) (2001)

Franz Schubert - Chamber Music (4CD) (2001)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:14:29 | 1 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Andante | Catalog: 1991-1994

Andante's deluxe package of Schubert's chamber music masterpieces includes classic performances that retain their glories. The Cortot-Thibaud-Casals Trio in the Piano Trio No. 1 and the Busch Trio's Piano Trio No. 2, for example, still reign supreme for insightful, warm interpretations, here transferred with presence and color. Busch's violin Fantasy, too, has only been bettered by Szigeti's performance, and the Kreisler-Rachmaninoff recording of the Grand Duo Violin Sonata has always been–and always will be–in a class by itself.