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Smetana Quartet - Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 17, 2024

Smetana Quartet - Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 511:53 minutes | 14,91 GB
Classical | Label: Supraphon, Official Digital Download

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.

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

Posted by delpotro at March 6, 2024

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.

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Sergey Taneyev: Complete String Quartets / Taneyev Quartet (2005) Music

Posted by Benzok at Dec. 8, 2010

For fans of Sergey Taneyev, the so-called Russian Brahms, the re-issue of the Taneyev Quartets recordings of the nine string quartets of their namesake in 2005 was cause for celebrating. Taped in the late Seventies, their recordings were only intermittently available in what was then called the West, and their re-release restored to the catalogue performances which could well be considered definitive.

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Dvorak - Prager Streichquartett - The String Quartets (1970s, Deutsche Grammophon # 463 165-2) [1999 9xCD Box] Music

Posted by luckburz at Jan. 25, 2015

"Sehr viel schöne Musik auf neun reich gefüllten CDs. Jedes Werk erfährt eine mehr als angemessene Interpretation. Kaufen und genießen!" ~Grammophone

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Quatuor Modigliani - Schubert: The String Quartets (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 21, 2022

Quatuor Modigliani - Schubert: The String Quartets (2022)
FLAC tracks | 6:18:05 | 1,66 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Mirare

As a young chorister, the fourteen-year-old Franz Schubert penned his first string quartets, a genre that he would continue to explore until the last years of his life. Fifteen quartets, of remarkable originality and bewitching lyricism, entered into history, bearing at once the legacy of the Classical Era and a vision of the future. These works are marked by the tides of life - disillusion, illness, but also the flourishing of a magisterial mind. “The communion with a confidential soul, the discovery of indescribable colours, the admiration of a remarkable message whose ideas never cease to evolve and inspire… This is part of a distinctive journey that will leave an everlasting mark upon us. The recording of the Octet two years ago was just the initial building block of a project dear to us, one that we now see fulfilled through this immersion.

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Zemlinsky Quartet - Franz Schubert: The First String Quartets (Remastered) (2008/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at May 12, 2022

Zemlinsky Quartet - Franz Schubert: The First String Quartets (Remastered) (2008/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 246:42 minutes | 3,48 GB
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals, Official Digital Download

In Metternich's Vienna, chamber music was the favourite distraction of a number of aristocrats and the leisure class as well as student Bohemia. By 1815, a teenaged Franz Schubert had already written (at least) ten scores for quartet, for the family circle, Hausmusik, without seeking to conceal his models borrowed from Haydn and, especially, Mozart.

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Béla Bartók - Alban Berg Quartett - String Quartets 1-6 (1986, reissue 2006, EMI # 0946 3 60947 2 4) [RE-UP] Music

Posted by luckburz at Oct. 27, 2015

“The Alban Berg bring all their usual sophistication and Viennese hothouse climate to works which are sometimes illuminated by them, and equally often obscured.” ~BBC Music Magazine

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Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 8, 2023

Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) - 273 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 MB
1:07:51 | Classical | Label: Hyperion

If this premiere recording of Stephen Hough’s String Quartet No 1 may be regarded as definitive—the work is dedicated to the Takács Quartet—those of the quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux are no less distinguished.Dedicated ‘à mon cher maître Gabriel Fauré’, Maurice Ravel’s only string quartet was started in 1902. On 30 April that year he had attended the first performance of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and immediately afterwards set about preparing for the Prix de Rome—a prize he was fated never to win despite repeated attempts between 1900 and 1905. In the autumn he undertook a project for a fellow composer, Frederick Delius, who asked him to make a piano–vocal score of the opera Margot la Rouge. He then got to work on the String Quartet, and the first two movements were finished in December 1902, according to Ravel’s note on the last page of the second movement in the autograph score.

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Calidore Quartet - Beethoven Quartets, Vol. 3: Early String Quartets (2025) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 21, 2025

Calidore Quartet - Beethoven Quartets, Vol. 3: Early String Quartets (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:36:17 | 676 Mb
Genre: Classical

The third instalment in their award-winning series, the Calidore Quartet return with a three-disc album of the Early Quartets. Their Beethoven performances have been described as ‘shockingly deep’ by LA Times. The first album of Late Quartets won the Chamber Music Award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2024, and their second album of Middle Quartets will be awarded Chamber Recording of the Month in the October issue of Gramophone Magazine. Their interpretation is informed by their diverse set of mentors which include Alban Berg, Emerson, Guarneri and yet still uniquely representing the sentiments, aesthetics and research of their generation. Their interpretations of Beethoven are already critically acclaimed with performances at the Lincoln Centre planned as part of their residency.

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Amadeus Quartet - Beethoven: Streichquartette, Op. 18 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Oct. 29, 2018

Amadeus Quartet - Beethoven: Streichquartette, Op. 18 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 137:59 minutes | 5.05 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

The Amadeus were the most successful and highly-regarded Quartet of the 20th century. One of the first to make use of the then extraordinary new ability to travel the globe by aeroplane, they travelled widely and established themselves as the pre-eminent ensemble of chamber music-making for nearly 40 years.

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