Sirius Quartet Evans String Quartet No 1

Quatuor Hanson & Adam Laloum - Schumann: String Quartets - Piano Quintet (2024)

Quatuor Hanson & Adam Laloum - Schumann: String Quartets - Piano Quintet (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 551 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 264 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:54:49
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

Far from the dark, tortured image often associated with his music, the works on this album testify to an astonishingly serene period in Schumann’s life. A fine subject for this first album by the Hanson Quartet for harmonia mundi, whose members are partnered by Adam Laloum for a thrilling reading of a masterpiece of the Romantic repertory: the Piano Quintet.
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.
Shostakovich - Complete String Quartets (CDs + Scores!) - Borodin Quartet

Shostakovich - Complete String Quartets (CDs + Scores!) - Borodin Quartet
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 6 Cds, Covers; 15 PDF | 2.21 Gb (CDs) + 39.8 Mb (Scores)
Label: Melodiya/BMG - Date: 1997

Rarely do we come across as intimate and wide-angled a set as this collection of Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets, all of them played by the Russian Borodin Quartet. Recorded in Moscow between 1978 and 1983, the quartets are excellently reproduced in digital sound by Sviatoslav Richter, who maintains just enough shadow from the old Melodiya vinyl's audio vérité to make the music breathe passionately…

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.
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.
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.
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.
Quatuor Strada, Theo Fouchenneret - R. Schumann Collection - String Quartets and Piano Quintet (Live) (2025)

Quatuor Strada, Théo Fouchenneret - R. Schumann Collection - String Quartets and Piano Quintet (Live) (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless+Booklet | 1:41:00 | 524 Mb
Genre: Classical

For the Fourth Volume of their Schumann Collection, Pierre and Theo Fouchenneret, along with their fellow musicians in Quatuor Strada, take us through the year 1842. It was a prolific period for the composer being the year of the three String Quartets, Opus 41, and the Quintet for Piano and Strings, Opus 44.

Spektral Quartet - Experiments in Living (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 28, 2020
Spektral Quartet - Experiments in Living (2020)

Spektral Quartet - Experiments in Living (2020)
FLAC tracks | 02:05:24 | 535 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: New Focus Recordings

This album will never be heard the same way twice. Do you remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? “If you approach the mysterious stranger, turn to page 48…If you duck into the forbidden cave to avoid them, turn to page 136,” etc. There was a thrill to the equal possibilities of adventure or capture, friendship or deception, renown or obscurity.