The New Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon (Boxset)

Product Description

This monumental release documents the Emerson String Quartet's exceptional longevity and dynamism – founded in 1976, they are still as youthfully active and inquisitive as ever more than 40 years later.  Moreover it charts the New York-based ensemble's musical breadth, encompassing virtually all of the important repertoire for their formation. 

This 55 CD collection includes their complete output on DG and features highlights such as the Nine Grammy Awards, 2 Gramophone Magazine Awards; complete cycles by Shostakovich, Beethoven and Bartók; plus String Quartets by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Schubert; The DECCA Gold Album Chaconnes and Fantasias: Music of Britten and Purcell and the The New York Concert with Evgeny Kissin (2CDs). Also included is a Bonus CD with Encores and Audio Guides.

TRACKLISTING:

CD 1:
SCHUBERT - String Quartet D810 "Death and The Maiden"
BEETHOVEN - Quartet in F minor op. 95

CD 2 – 3:
BARTÓK - The 6 String Quartets

CD 4:
DEBUSSY - String Quartet in G minor op. 10
RAVEL - String Quartet in F major

CD 5:
TCHAIKOVSKY - String Quartet no. 1 in D major
BORODIN - String Quartet no. 2

CD 6:
HAYDN - String Quartet in …op. 74 no. 2 "Emperor"
Schubert String Quartet D 804
Schubert String Quartet D 703

CD 7:
BEETHOVEN - String Quartet in F major, op. 135
SCHUBERT - String Quartet in G major, D887

CD 8:
DVORÁK - String Quartet no. 12 "American"
SMETANA - String Quartet no. 1 in E minor "From my life"

CD 9:
BRAHMS - String Quartet no 1
SCHUMANN - String Quartet no. 2

CD 10:
MOZART - Flute Quartets nos. 1 – 4
Carol Wincenc, flute

CD 11:
PROKOFIEV - String Quartets nos. 1 & 2
Sonata for 2 Violins

CD 12:
SCHUBERT - String Quintet in C major D956
Mstislav Rostorpovich, cello

CD 13 – 15:
MOZART - The 6 "Haydn" Quartets

CD 16:
IVES - String Quartets nos. 1 & 2
BARBER - String Quartet
BARBER: Dover Beach / Thomas Hampson

CD 17:
HARBISON / WERNICK / SCHULLER - String Quartets

CD 18:
DVORÁK - Piano Quintet  op. 81
Piano Quartet op. 87
Menahem Pressler, piano

CD 19:
WEBERN - Works for String Quartet
Mary Ann McCormick

CD 20:
SCHUMANN - Piano Quintet in E flat major op. 44
Piano Quartet op. 47
Menahem Pressler, piano

CD 21 – 27:
BEETHOVEN
The String Quartets

CD 28:
MEYER - Quintet
Edgar Meyer, double bass
ROREM - String Quartet no. 4

CD 29:
MOZART - Clarinet Quintet
BRAHMS - Clarinet Quintet
David Shifrin

CD 30 – 34:
SHOSTAKOVICH - The String Quartets

CD 35 – 36:
THE HAYDN PROJECT / String Quartets Op. 20 No.5, 33 No.2, 54 No.1, 64 No.5, 74 No.3, 76 No.2 and 77 No.1

CD 37:
J. S. BACH - The Art of Fugue

CD 38:
HAYDN - Seven Last Words op. 51

CD 39 – 42:
MENDELSSOHN - The String Quartets

CD 43:
GRIEG / NIELSEN / SIBELIUS - "Intimate Voices"

CD 44 – 45:
BRAHMS - String Quartets & Piano Quintet
Leon Fischer, piano

CD 46:
J.S. BACH - Fugues from "The Well-tempered Clavier"

CD 47:
JANÁREK - "Intimate Letters", String Quartets
MARTINR: Madrigals for Violin and Viola

CD 48 – 50:
DVORÁK - The String Quartets
String Quintet Op. 97 / Paul Neubauer
Cypresses B. 152

CD 51:
BERG - Lyric Suite
WELLESZ - Sonnets from the Portuguese
ZEISL - Komm, süsser Tod
Renée Fleming

CD 52 (Bonus):
Encores & Audio Guides 82:51
1. Brahms: O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf op. 74/2
2. Sibelius: Andante Festivo
3. JanáRek: On an Overgrown Path I
4. Wolf: Italian Serenade
5. Puccini: Crisantemi
6. – 10. Haydn, Seven Last Words – Listening Guide
11. – 20. A Journey Through Mendelssohn's Quartets – Listening Guide

CD 53:
Chaconnes and Fantasias: Music of BRITTEN and PURCELL

CD 54 – 55:
The New York Concert with Evgeny Kissin
MOZART:  Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478
FAURÉ:  Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15
DVORÁK:  Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, B. 155
SHOSTAKOVICH:  Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57