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Nordic String Quartet - Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Complete String Quartets, vol.1 (2019)

Nordic String Quartet - Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Complete String Quartets, vol.1 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 247 Mb | Total time: 62:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dacapo | 8.226217 | Recorded: 2017, 2018

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen wrote his first three string quartets in 1959 and his 14th and last in 2013, three years before he died. This first volume in a new cycle comes from an ensemble coached by Tim Frederiksen (he who gave us the Nightingale Quartet) at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. The Nordic Quartet gave their graduation performance at the Academy last autumn.
Tokyo String Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (2010)

Tokyo String Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 2.34 Gb | 08:25:18
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi

Enjoyable as other digital recordings of Beethoven's first quartets are, this new Tokyo set just about pips all rivals to the post. The reason is primarily one of balance, not only within the group itself but also in terms of overall musical judgement – whether relating to tempo, dynamics or emphases, or simply the way the players combine a sense of classical style with an appreciation of Beethoven's startling originality. If you're after a top-ranking digital set of Op 18, you couldn't do better.
Sebastian String Quartet, Davorin Brozic, Kresimir Bedek - Boris Papandopulo: The Complete String Quartets (2023)

Sebastian String Quartet, Davorin Brozic, Kresimir Bedek - Boris Papandopulo: The Complete String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:59:44 | 409 / 939 Mb
Genre: Classical

The Croatian composer Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991) has had a home in our catalog for a number of years. Until now, it was mainly concertante works and chamber music involving the piano that allowed us to hear an astonishingly idiosyncratic personality, even in his (relatively rare) use of modern compositional techniques. Now cpo is enriching the multifaceted profile of this striking artist with the release of the string quartets, which reflect practically the entire creative life span of the man from Zagreb: Folkloristic influences, the inevitabilities of the socialist-realist doctrine, the experiments with the compositional achievements of the West - all this combines to form a great musical "documentary film", in which the extremely expressive Clarinet Quintet, composed during wartime, and the concise, playful Guitar Quartet also play no insignificant role.
Quartetto Italiano - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (1996) (10 CDs Box Set)

Quartetto Italiano - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (1996) (10 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks+.cue, log) | 10 CDs, 09:03:37 min | 2,47 Gb | Scans, booklet ->331 mb
Genre: Classical, Chamber Music / Label: Decca/Philips

If beauty is truth and truth beauty, then the Quartetto Italiano's late-'60s, early-'70s cycle of the complete Beethoven string quartets is possibly the most truthful cycle ever recorded because it is certainly the most beautiful cycle ever recorded. No quartet has ever played with such consummate beauty of tone, such ideal intonation, and such superb ensemble as the Quartetto Italiano. In the most strenuous passages, in the most awkward, in the most excruciating passages, the Italiano is always and everywhere transcendentally beautiful.
Shostakovich - The Shostakovich Quartet - Complete String Quartets (2010) (Box Set 5CD)

Shostakovich - The Shostakovich Quartet - Complete String Quartets (2010) (Box Set 5CD)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers | 1793 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 899 mb
Classical, Chamber Music | Label: Alto - ALC 5002

The staying power of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s string quartets rivals that of his symphonies. His quartets are deeply personal works – intensely autobiographical, confessional, intimate, intensely emotional – and among the most insightful works in the quartet repertoire.
Emerson String Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets (2005) (Repost)

Emerson String Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:02:06 | 1,2 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 000388802

This set of the String Quartets of Mendelssohn may prove to be the most lasting contribution the Emerson Quartet has yet made to the string quartet discography. While the Emerson has always been slightly out of its depth in the quartets of Bartók, Beethoven, and Shostakovich, in the quartets of Mendelssohn, the Emerson has met its match. This is not to disparage either the Emerson Quartet, much less Mendelssohn. The Emerson is easily the finest string quartet in contemporary America, a supple ensemble with a warm tone, a strong technique, and an expressive manner.

Vegh Quartet - Bela Bartok: Complete String Quartets (2001) 3CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 23, 2023
Vegh Quartet - Bela Bartok: Complete String Quartets (2001) 3CDs

Quatuor Végh - Béla Bartók: Complete String Quartets (2001) 3CD
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 655 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 352 Mb | Scans ~ 48 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 4870 | Time: 02:18:54

The Végh Quartet was not only one of the finest string quartets from mid-twentieth century Europe, but its style was never subjected to radical change over the years from personnel changes because the four original players remained members for 38 of the 40 years of the ensemble's existence. Its style evolved in subtle ways, of course, but its essential character endured until 1978: the quartet was Central European in its sound, with a bit more prominence given to the cello in order to build tonal qualities from the bottom upward. The Végh Quartet was best known for its cycles – two each – of the Beethoven and Bartók quartets. It also performed and recorded many of the Haydn quartets, as well as numerous other staples of the repertory by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, and Debussy. For a group that disbanded in 1980, its recordings are still quite popular, with major efforts available in varied reissues from Music & Arts, Archipel, Naïve, and Orfeo.
Mandelring Quartet - Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets (2006-2009) (5 СD Set) REPOST

Mandelring Quartet - Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets (2006-2009) (5 СD Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 5 CD, 05:53:34 min | Covers included | 1,41 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Audite

The Mandelring Quartet plays with unflinching resolve, sympathetic expression, incisive attacks, and penetrating tone, which are all necessary in Shostakovich's sardonic and frequently bitter language.
Quatuor Danel - Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets (2005) (5CD Box Set)

Quatuor Danel - Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets (2005) (5CD Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork | 1567 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 885 mb
Classical, String Quartet | Label: Fuga Libera / FUG512

The recordings, made by Bavarian Radio between 2001 and 2005, are, if anything, classier still, with equally classy annotations by Shostakovich scholars Frans Lemaire and David Fanning.
Since fact and speculation are for once carefully defined, you won't see here the incautious revisionism of so much Shostakovich commentary.
Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Zemlinsky  - Complete String Quartets (2013) (LaSalle Quartet) (6CD Box set)  {Deutsche Grammophon}

Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Zemlinsky - Complete String Quartets (2013) (LaSalle Quartet) (6CD Box set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork | 1720 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 902 mb
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon / B00E5YNBSU

These first complete recordings of the string quartets of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Zemlinsky have won numerous international awards and been hailed as landmarks in the discography of 20th-century music. Impeccable ensemble, superbly blended timbre and pure intonation ….This set [Schoenberg, Berg, Webern] is indeed a wonderful achievement (MusicWeb International). Febrile intensity and faultless proportioning of each formal structure [Zemlinsky] (Guardian).