Since you are interested in Beethoven: String Quartets Op.59/1 & 95, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GYORGY LIGETI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Vocal works Artemis Quartet / Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet / Groupe Vocal de France, Guy Reibel [ EMI 20th Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Lux Aeterna put Ligeti on the map for the wider public when Stanley Kubrick appropriated it for its unearthly effect in his film 2001, A Space Odyssey. But his music began firmly in his Hungarian roots, and bears a debt to Bartók and Kodály. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Op 18/1, Op 127 The Artemis Quartet [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] "This is 21st Century Beethoven: contrasts and disjunctions vividly emphasised, supremely faithful to the outrageous demands Beethoven makes, precise in ensemble, accentuation and intonation, the resonances of early music brought to the fore in the... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms/Schumann: Piano Quintets Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) / Artemis Quartet [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 13/Oct/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Chamber - "Those who desire the Schumann and Brahms on one disc cannot do better than this supremely accomplished and excellently engineered release." (ClassicsToday 9/9) |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Op.18/6, Op.130 & 133 Artemis Quartet [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] "Certainly their account of Op. 130 must rank as one of the finest ever recorded, and their decision to perform the work with the Grosse Fuge as the rightful finale is fully vindicated by the overwhelming power and audacity of their interpretation."... |