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Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 17, 2023

Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 777 MB
5:34:55 | Scans Included | Classical, Jazz | Label: TUM Records

(7-CD set) String Quartets Nos. 1-12 focus on Wadada Leo Smith as a composer for strings. Smith began work on his first string quartet in 1965 and has composed string quartets and other works for strings throughout his career. Smith has also featured strings on a number of his other major works, including Ten Freedom Summers in 2011, Occupy The World in 2012 (TUM CD 037-2) and Rosa Parks: Pure Love in 2016/17 (TUM CD 057).String Quartets Nos. 1-12 represent a magnificent addition not only to Smith's own recorded output but also to the literature for modern string quartet music in general.

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Taneyev String Quartet - Myaskovsky: Complete String Quartets Nos. 1-13 (2019) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Aug. 4, 2019

What was it about ‘waiting’ and ‘buses’? No sooner has the Borodin Quartet unveiled its recording of Miaskovsky’s Quartet No.13 [Onyx 4051] than the young French Renoir Quartet appears to trump them by adding the First as well. This bookending device ensures that the disc bears a ‘first and last thoughts’ patina. Miaskovsky delayed writing - or to put it more accurately, releasing for public consumption - a String Quartet until he was nearly fifty. His final work in the form was completed the year before his death.

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Alban Berg Quartet - The Complete Recordings [62CDs Box Set] (2020) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at March 17, 2025

Alban Berg Quartet - The Complete Recordings [62CDs Box Set] (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks) | Run Time: 61:07:20 | 15.13 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: WARNER CLASSICS

Spanning repertoire from the Classical to the contemporary and some 30 years of the Alban Berg Quartett's career, these recordings evince the achievement of an ensemble whose very name honours both the tradition and innovative musical spirit of its home city, Vienna. Founded in 1970, it soon became recognised as one of the defining quartets of the 20th century and went on to make two landmark recordings of the complete Beethoven cycle, the first in the studio, the second live at Vienna's Konzerthaus (presented here in both CD and DVD versions). This 70-disc set, which in addition features DVDs of Schubert and a live performance in St Petersburg, also documents the Alban Berg Quartett's collaborations with such artists as Sabine Meyer, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder and Philippe Entremont.

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Emerson String Quartet - R. Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Op. 41 (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 26, 2020

Emerson String Quartet - R. Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Op. 41 (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:16:38 | 338 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: PentaTone

The Emerson String Quartet makes its Pentatone debut with a recording of Schumann’s three string quartets. Penned in the summer of 1842 during an exceptional peak of creativity, these quartets formed the beginning of a six-month surge during which most of Schumann’s best chamber music saw the light. Inspired by the example of Beethoven, Schumann’s quartets display a mastery of traditional forms, combined with typically Schumannian fantasy and lyricism, particularly in the inner movements. As such, they underline a new level of maturity in Schumann’s artistic development, surpassing the fantastical aesthetic of previous years.

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Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 2, 2022

Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 61:25 minutes | 598 MB
Classical | Label: CD Accord, Official Digital Download

String Quartet No. 5 was written in the autumn of 1945 and was performed on 17 May 1947 in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it was dedicated. Years later, the composer returned to this Quartet and arranged it for orchestra as the four-movement Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151 (performed on 18 November 1991). It was several years before that he had first begun to turn to his scores from almost half a century earlier, and he already had 17 string quartets under his belt.

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The Indianapolis Quartet - Robert Paterson: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 21, 2022

The Indianapolis Quartet - Robert Paterson: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 76:35 minutes | 1,46 GB
Classical | Label: American Modern Recordings, Official Digital Download

This album consists of world premiere recordings of Robert Paterson’s three string quartets: String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2, and String Quartet No. 3. These three quartets span a period of over twenty years, with the first quartet having been composed in 2000, and the second and third composed in 2019, and 2020, respectively. This begs the question: what took so long for Paterson to compose another string quartet? Why wait almost twenty years, and why did he compose his second and third quartets so close together?

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Amber Quartet Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 6 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 1, 2023

Amber Quartet Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 6 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 59:11 minutes | 1.12 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

"The German composer's output also contains many chamber works that display an emotional intensity, which deserve to be heard by the audience," says Yang Yichen, the cellist of Amber Quartet, who is also a teacher at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

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Párkányí Quartet - Béla Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 5 & 6 (2006/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 17, 2024

Párkányí Quartet - Béla Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 5 & 6 (2006/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 62:37 minutes | 1,14 GB
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals, Official Digital Download

The last two of the six String Quartets written by the composer of The Miraculous Mandarin, bringing together the most perfectly balanced between its two night musics, framed by three pillars of an arc built with ‘country’ material as authentic as it is violent (5th), and finally, the distressed, funereal farewell of the 6th with its sad (‘mesto’) ritornello.

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Pleyel Quartett Koln - Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6 (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at May 1, 2020

Pleyel Quartett Koln - Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6 (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 277 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 162 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:51:06
Classical | Label: CPO

Gaetano Donizetti not only was very well acquainted with the Viennese models that then were dominant on the international market; at the latest since his study years in Bologna he had also been familiar with the most important exponents of Italian quartet culture. This is why his string quartets offer valuable insights into his education and early artistic development and are important documents attesting to the existence of a chamber music culture specific to Bergamo. In Quartets Nos. 4-6 conventional and innovative elements combine to form an astonishing synthesis.

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Heath Quartet - Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 15, 2017

Heath Quartet - Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 66:18 minutes | 1.14 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The Heath Quartet makes its harmonia mundi début with this contrasting programme of Tchaikovsky’s String Quartets: his Quartet No. 1 (famed for its plaintive “Andante cantabile”) and the tempestuous No. 3 (dedicated to the memory of Ferdinand Laub).

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