Sirius Quartet Evans String Quartet No 1

Guarneri Quartet - Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Major - Dohnányi String Quartet, Op. 15 (1982/2025) [24/192]

Guarneri Quartet - Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Major - Dohnányi String Quartet, Op. 15 (1982/2025) [24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 51:09 minutes | 1,81 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Borodin: The String Quartet No. 2 is a string quartet in D major written by Alexander Borodin in 1881. It was dedicated to his wife Ekaterina Protopova. Some scholars, such as Borodin's biographer Serge Dianin, suggest that the quartet was a 20th anniversary gift and that it has a program evoking the couple's first meeting in Heidelberg. Of its four movements, the third movement "Notturno" is the most famous.

Quartetto Nous - Shostakovich: String Quartets, Vol. 4 (2025)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 28, 2025
Quartetto Nous - Shostakovich: String Quartets, Vol. 4 (2025)

Quartetto Noûs - Shostakovich: String Quartets, Vol. 4 (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:59:58 | 535 Mb
Genre: Classical

The final volume in a distinguished quartet cycle by one of the most exciting Italian ensembles of the present day.
Founded in 2011, Quartetto Noûs have been playing Shostakovich since their earliest concerts together, and their performances, both in concert and on record, bear the mark of both deep study and complete identification with the scores. These are risk-taking, thoroughly embedded performances, as many critics have recognised, which live up to the edgy intensity of the music itself.
Alberto Ginastera - String Quartets (Quarteto Latinoamericano)

Alberto Ginastera - String Quartets (Quarteto Latinoamericano)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 351 Mb
Label:Brilliant/Elan - Date:1997

Alberto Ginastera (1916–83) the foremost 20th century Argentinean composer began composing in 1930, but destroyed many of his early works. The one work to survive from this period was the ballet 'Panambi', which catapulted him to fame, and resulted in a commission for another ballet 'Estancia' based on rural Argentinean life. Aside from his stage and orchestral music, chamber music played a big role in his creative output. The string quartets span the various stages of his musical development, and …..
Alban Berg Quartett - Brahms: String Quartets, Opp. 51 & 67 (1993)

Alban Berg Quartett - Brahms: String Quartets, Opp. 51 & 67 (1993)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 481 MB | 01:42:16
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Brahms's string quartets are among the composer's most "difficult" works, and they take a bit of effort to get to terms with. It has been said that inside them there are symphonies struggling to emerge, and to some extent one does get the feeling that Brahms was less than fully comfortable with the medium, that it provided restrictions more than opportunities and that the music is too large-scale in feel for the intimacy of chamber music.
Lotte Betts-Dean, James Girling & Ligeti Quartet - The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy (2024) [Digital Download 24/96]

Lotte Betts-Dean, James Girling & Ligeti Quartet - The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 67:04 minutes | 1,02 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Delphian Records, Official Digital Download

Conceived during a residency at The Red House, Benjamin Britten’s former home, in 2019, this collection of new compositions and arrangements by Arthur Keegan – developed in close collaboration with the performers – shows the profound influence of Thomas Hardy’s poetry on composers throughout the twentieth century and into our own era. Hardy’s characteristic themes are present throughout: the relentless passing of time; nature and the changing seasons; the effects on both of the modern world, with its machines and timetables.
Lotte Betts-Dean, James Girling, Ligeti Quartet - The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy (2024)

Lotte Betts-Dean, James Girling, Ligeti Quartet - The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:07:04 | 262 Mb
Genre: Classical

Keegan’s Elegies for Emma, for voice and guitar, seeks to restore the voice of Hardy’s first wife Emma alongside the regret-filled poems Hardy wrote after her death, while String Quartet No 1 ‘Elegies for Tom’ weaves instrumental meditations on Hardy’s poem ‘Afterwards’ together with interludes setting a later poem by Philip Larkin. Recently named Young Artist of the Year at the prestigious RPS Music Awards, mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean is joined by guitarist James Girling and the Ligeti Quartet in performances that linger long in the memory.
Catalyst Quartet & Michelle Cann - Uncovered, Vol. 2:  Florence B. Price (2022)

Catalyst Quartet & Michelle Cann - Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 503 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 268 Mb | 01:57:03
Classical | Label: Azica Records

Over the course of time there have been many overlooked artists in classical music, because of their race and/or gender. It is important to acknowledge that we have not yet heard the whole story due to this sidelining of voices. Composers Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, Florence B. Price, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and George Walker, have all contributed beautifully crafted works to the repertoire, but are not widely celebrated. Another contributing factor to this unfortunate reality is access to their manuscripts and recordings of their work which we believe would lead to greater awareness and programming of their incredible music.
Quartetto Nous - Shostakovich: String Quartets, Vol. 4 (2025)

Quartetto Noûs - Shostakovich: String Quartets, Vol. 4 (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:59:58 | 535 Mb
Genre: Classical

The final volume in a distinguished quartet cycle by one of the most exciting Italian ensembles of the present day.
Founded in 2011, Quartetto Noûs have been playing Shostakovich since their earliest concerts together, and their performances, both in concert and on record, bear the mark of both deep study and complete identification with the scores. These are risk-taking, thoroughly embedded performances, as many critics have recognised, which live up to the edgy intensity of the music itself.
Brodsky Quartet, Robert Smissen & Richard May - Sir Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik: Chamber Works for Strings (2014/2022) [24/96]

Brodsky Quartet, Robert Smissen & Richard May - Messages - Sir Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik: Chamber Works for Strings (2014/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 78:19 minutes | 1,41 GB
Classical | Label: Chandos Records, Official Digital Download

2014 marks the centenary of Polish-British composer Andrzej Panufnik. Here the Brodsky Quartet joins in this year of reminiscence and celebration with Messages, a recording of works both by Andrzej and his daughter Roxanna Panufnik.
Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel- String Quartets (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel- String Quartets (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:07:48 minutes | 1.16 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

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.