String Quartet

Endellion String Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Quintets and fragments (2009) (10 CDs Box Set)

Endellion String Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Quintets and fragments (2009) (10 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 10 CDs, 10:51:01 min | 2,69 Gb | Scans ->17 mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

This is a very complete set indeed. It includes all the quartets in the latest edition prepared by Jonathan Del Mar which restores many important markings by Beethoven and which has been done in collaboration with the Endellion Quartet. Both versions of the first quartet or included as well as Beethoven's quartet arrangement of the piano sonata Op. 14 no. 1. the Gross Fuge, both string quintets plus other works for string quartet including the two prelude and fugues.
Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.76 (2016) 2CDs

Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.76 (2016) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 640 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 340 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10886 | Time: 02:26:59

This is the second volume in the Doric String Quartet’s series devoted to Haydn’s String Quartets. Op. 76 turned out to be the last full set of six string quartets that Haydn was to compose. While they were written over the period 1796-97, they were not published until 1799. They had been commissioned by Count Joseph Erdödy, and such arrangements often entailed, as in this case, a period of time during which the works were reserved for that person’s exclusive use and enjoyment. The composition of Op. 76 coincided with Haydn’s work on Die Schöpfung and the first few of the six masses which Haydn wrote for the name day of Princess Maria Hermenegild Esterházy, and one can readily imagine that such compositional preoccupations rubbed off onto the composition of the quartets. However, that cannot be equated with a particular predominant ‘opus character’, a feature of some of Haydn’s previous sets. Rather – like Op. 20, also recently recorded by the Doric String Quartet (CHAN10831(2)) – the quartets seem to be most remarkable for their sheer variety.
Rosebud String Quartet & Steven Dann - Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 77, Nos. 1 & 2 Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 (2023)

Rosebud String Quartet & Steven Dann - Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 77, Nos. 1 & 2 "Lobkowitz" & Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 in E-Flat Major, K. 614 (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 398 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:17:10
Classical | Label: Leaf Music

The Rosebud String Quartet was formed in 2013 at the inaugural Rosebud Chamber Music Festival, an annual summer chamber music showcase in rural Alberta. Comprised of principal players from the Edmonton Symphony and the orchestras of the Canadian Opera Company and National Ballet of Canada, the RSQ is one of Canada’s most dynamic ensembles with a unique voice and a deep love for the music of Haydn.
Emerson String Quartet, Barbara Hannigan & Bertrand Chamayou - Infinite Voyage (2023)

Emerson String Quartet, Barbara Hannigan & Bertrand Chamayou - Infinite Voyage (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 334 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 169 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:53
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics

The title of this album evokes not only the life-long journey of all these musicians, but also a lasting friendship between soprano Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet. One of the greatest string quartets of the last four decades, the Emersons will disband in October 2023. Barbara and the Emersons were determined to record Schoenberg's Quartet No. 2 since they started performing the work together in 2015.
Ursula Oppens, Arditti String Quartet - Elliott Carter: Chamber Music (2000) [Re-Up]

Ursula Oppens, Arditti String Quartet - Elliott Carter: Chamber Music (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 303 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: Montaigne | # MO 782122 | Time: 01:15:58

In his 90th year, Elliott Carter is doing something few nonagenarians ever do: he's premiering a striking new string quartet, his fifth. And it's an awe-inspiring piece. The Arditti String Quartet takes up the short phrases that run with and then against one another with sureness, plucking and scraping and making their bows sing. They then delve into each of the five interludes that interrogate the quartet's six sections and play through the disparate splinters of tone and flushes of midrange color as if they were perfectly logical developments. Which they're not. Carter has again brilliantly scripted a chatter of stringed voices–à la the second quartet–that converse quickly, sometimes mournfully, but never straightforwardly. This complexity of conversation is a constant for Carter, coming sharply to light in "90+" and then in Rohan de Saram and Ursula Oppens's heaving read of the 1948 Sonata for Cello and Piano, as well as in virtually all these pieces. This is a monumental recording, extending the documented work of a lamentably underappreciated American composer.
Brentano String Quartet - Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 19 & 16, K. 465 & 428 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Brentano String Quartet - Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 19 & 16, K. 465 & 428 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 61:07 minutes | 1,08 GB
Classical | Label: Azica Records, Official Digital Download

The Brentano Quartet, in their second release for Azica Records, present the Mozart String Quartets No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, Dissonance, and No. 16 in E Flat Major, K. 428. Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim.

Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 4, 2021
Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)

Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 334 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 173 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:13:58
Classical | Label: BIS

Previous releases from the New York-based Escher Quartet include an acclaimed set of Mendelsohn’s six string quartets as well as an album with works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Borodin. For their latest offering the members have looked closer to home, however, choosing to combine the quartets by Samuel Barber and Charles Ives. The disc opens with Barber’s String Quartet in B minor, containing the music for which the composer remains best-known: the second movement which he two years later expanded into Adagio for Strings.
Juilliard String Quartet: The Complete RCA Recordings 1957-60 [11CDs] (2019)

Juilliard String Quartet: The Complete RCA Recordings 1957-60 [11CDs] (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2,41 Gb | Total time: 510 mins | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 19075863412 | Recorded: 1957-60

The Juilliard String Quartet was one of the pioneering string quartet formations of the 20th century. Virtuosity in playing technique, sovereign creative power and precisely coordinated tonal balance with X-ray-quality intonation purity characterized the playing of the New York formation around founder and primarius Robert Mann. Indulging in tonal beauty was not their priority. In this way, they moved somewhat outside of what was customary in Central Europe at the time. Their complete recordings for the RCA label, for which they recorded in the short period from 1957 to 1960, appear for the first time bundled on 11 CDs.
Emerson String Quartet - R. Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Op. 41 (2020)

Emerson String Quartet - R. Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Op. 41 (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 338 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 179 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:16:44
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.
Cecilia String Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Op.44 Nos. 1, 2 (2015) [Re-Up]

Cecilia String Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Op.44 Nos. 1, 2 (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 260 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 121 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Analekta | # AN29844 | 00:45:05

GRAMOPHONE Magazine Editor's Choice - February 2016. The Cecilia String Quartet's performances have been hailed as “powerful” (Chicago Sun- Times) and their Analekta albums were acclaimed for their “deeply felt imperativeness” (The Strad), and applauded for “unleashing the music’s ecstasy and angst” (Gramophone Magazine). For this new recording, the CSQ chose to record two of the three quartets of Felix Mendelssohn's Op. 44, which are the centrepiece of his mature string quartets. He wrote them in the years 1837-38, starting composition at the age of 28, when his fame in the international musical community was rapidly growing. Elegant and irresistible!