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Afanasiev, Borodin, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: String Quartets / Leipzig String Quartet

1 CD / MD&G / 2012-09-11

Works: Nikolai Afanasiev: Volga, for string quartet; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Variations on a Chorale (4), for string quartet; At the Monastery (V monastïre), for string quartet; Sergey Rachmaninov: Qu...
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Ensemble: Leipzig String Quartet

The great discovery on this CD is Nikolai Afanasiev's Volga, a masterful string quartet integrating melodies of folk character and virtuosity into four wonderful quartet...continue...
Recording information: Konzerthaus der Abtei Marienmünster (11/10/2011-11/12/2011)....continue...

Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky: Quatuors a Cordes de Jeunessa

1 CD / Ligia Digital / 2012-04-10

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Quartet for Strings no 1, TN ii/30 (Romance & Scherzo, other 2 mvts. lost); Quartet for Strings no 2, TN ii/35 (2 movements only); Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Quartet for Strings n...

Notes are in French only for this recording of early string quartets by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. The Elysée String Quartet was founded in 1995. The...continue...
Recording information: Villennes-sur-Seine, France (01/04/2011-01/07/2011)....continue...

Quartettsatz: Music by Britten, Webern, Wolf / Alfama Quartet

1 CD / Fuga Libera / 2011-07-12

Works: Hugo Wolf: Serenade for String Quartet in G major "Italian Serenade"; Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz for String Quartet, M 78; Arnold Schoenberg: Presto, for string quartet in C major; Felix Mendelssoh...
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Ensemble: Alfama Quartet

Since its creation in 2004, the Alfama Quartet has made quite a breakthrough thanks to its subtlety, elegance, and dynamism. The four young members work...continue...
Recording information: Brussels, Flagey Studio (2010-12-01_2010-12-20_2010-)....continue...

First Steps

1 CD / Cobra / 2010-02-09

Works: Anton Bruckner: Rondo for string quartet in C minor; Benjamin Britten: Quartet for Strings in F major; Giacomo Puccini: Quartet for Strings in D major; Edvard Grieg: Fugue for string quartet in F min...

Can Webern and Schoenberg sound like Mahler and Wagner? Or Rachmaninov like Tchaikovsky and Puccini like Verdi? Discover these surprising early works of famous composers....continue...
Recording information: MCO Studio 1, Hilversum, The Netherlands (04/11/2006-04/13/2006)....continue...

Rachmaninov: String Quartets, Romances / Moz-art Quartet

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2009-09-01

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Quartet for Strings no 1, TN ii/30 (Romance & Scherzo, other 2 mvts. lost); The flower has faded, song for voice & piano, TN ii/53/2; Songs (15), Op. 26; Songs (6), Op. 8; Songs (...
Performers: Sumatchova, Svetlana

Rachmaninov, Arensky, Shostakovich: Piano Trios / Trio Nota Bene

1 CD / Claves / 2008-11-11

Works: Sergei Rachmaninov: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in G minor "Trio élégiaque"; Anton Arensky: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 32; Dmitri Shostakovich: Trio for Piano a...
Performers: Monnet, Lionel; Pignat, Xavier; Zufferey, Julien
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Ensemble: Trio Nota Bene

The Swiss ensemble Trio Nota Bene consists of pianist Lionel Monnet, cellist Xavier Pignat and violinist Julien Zufferey. The young musicians received their diplomas in...continue...

New York Legends - Eugene Levinson, Principal Double Bass

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Cello and Piano no 3 in A major, Op. 69; Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 47; Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano; Serge Koussevitzky: ...
Performers: Levinson, Eugene; Levinson, Gary [Violin]; Levinson, Gina

Borodin Quartet - 60th Anniversary / works by Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Schubert and Webern

1 CD / Onyx Classics / 2005-09-13

Works: Alexander Borodin: Quartet for Strings no 2 in D major; Petite Suite for Piano; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Quartet for Strings no 1 in D major, Op. 11; Sergey Rachmaninov: Quartet for Strings no 1, T...
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Ensemble: Borodin Quartet

"A superb new release celebrating the 60th anniversary (in 2005) of the world's longest surviving string quartet, founded in Moscow way back in 1945. It...continue...

Menus and Music - Museum Cafés & Arts - Ravel, Haydn, Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven, etc / Rossetti String Quartet

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2003-06-01

Works: Maurice Ravel: Quartet for Strings in F major; Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet for Strings in F minor, Op. 20 no 5/H 3 no 35; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Strings no 21 in D major, K 575; Claude ...

Russian String Miniatures

1 CD / Apex / 2003-03-31

Works: Alexander Borodin: Quartet for Strings no 2 in D major; Petite Suite for Piano; Vissarion Shebalin: Quartet for Strings no 5 in F minor ("Slavonic"), Op. 33; Sergey Rachmaninov: Quartet for Strings n...

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio; Rachmaninov / Kempf Trio

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2003-02-07

Works: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Trio for Piano and Strings in A minor, Op. 50; Sergei Rachmaninov: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in G minor "Trio élégiaque"
Performers: Bensaid, Pierre; Chaushian, Alexander; Kempf, Freddy
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Ensemble: Kempf Trio

"Understandably, remembering its dedicatee, Nikolai Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky's Trio is dominated by the piano part, which has moments of intrepid (sometimes repetitive) rhetoric, which must ring...continue...

Rachmaninoff: String Quartets / Budapest String Quartet

1 CD / Bridge / 1996-02-01

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Quartet for Strings no 1, TN ii/30 (Romance & Scherzo, other 2 mvts. lost); Trio élégiaque, for piano & strings in D minor, Op. 9; Quartet for Strings no 2, TN ii/35 (2 ...
Performers: Balsam, Artur
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Ensemble: Budapest Quartet