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MARTINU / SMETANA / JANACEK
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Vol 1 [Op 9 Nos 1-6] Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio’s for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
KORNGOLD
String Quartets Complete Flesch Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957): composer of Hollywood film music and best known for his opera Die tote Stadt. With his large symphonic 'German' scores he even set the tone for film music up to the present day. But this enormously talented... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Quartets Quartetto Avos [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] Camille Saint‐Saëns was a highly prolific and eclectic composer, two adjectives which may bear a negative undertone, but not in the case of Saint‐Saëns, a genius who absorbed all current musical styles and forged them in his own inimitable, unique la |
BARTOK
String Quartets 1-6 complete (Rec 2003) Rubin Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "at bargain price these are formidably fluent readings." (MusicWeb Feb 2005) |