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Quartet Movements by Schubert, Wolf, Orff, Rihm, Puccini, Ives, Webern / Signum Quartett

1 CD / Capriccio / 2012-01-31

Works: Hugo Wolf: Serenade for String Quartet in G major "Italian Serenade"; Giacomo Puccini: Chrysanthemums, elegy for string quartet; Carl Orff: Quartet for Strings no 1, Op. 22 (One movement); Charles Iv...
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Ensemble: Signum String Quartett

Von Webern composed at the maximal condensation of expression through small dimensioned designs. Wolf composed the single movement serenade for string quartet within 3 days...continue...
Recording information: Studio Gärtnerstraáe, Berlin (03/13/2011-03/16/2011)....continue...

Ives: Music for String Quartet / Mondriaan String Quartet

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2009-09-01

Works: Charles Ives: A Set of Short Pieces (3); Quartet for Strings no 2; Largo risoluto no 1 'as to the Law of Diminishing Returns'; Largo risoluto no 2 'a shadow made - a silhouette'; Halloween for String...
Performers: Altena, Eduard Van Regteren; Altena, Jan Erik Van Regteren; Altena, Quirijn Van Regteren; Bergman, Annette; Blankensteijn, Edwin; Oldenberg, Fred; Pacey, Prunella
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Ensemble: Mondriaan String Quartet

American Classics - Ives: String Quartets / Blair Quartet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-10-31

Works: Charles Ives: Fugue in C major; A Set of Short Pieces (3); Quartet for Strings no 2, for string quartet, S. 58 (K. 2A3)

"It's always good to have new recordings of Ives' two quartets (here including a bonus of the zany 'Scherzo for String Quartet'). They are wonderful...continue...

Encores - Bach, Haydn, et al / Leipzig String Quartet

1 CD / MD&G / 2006-07-25

Works: Franz Schubert: Quartet for Strings no 12 in C minor, D 703/Op. posth "Quartettsatz"; Hugo Wolf: Intermezzo for string quartet in E flat major; Johann Sebastian Bach: Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich...
Performers: Rohde, Hartmut
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Ensemble: Friedrich Wilhelm Rodding

"Here are the "usual suspects": the Schubert Quartettsatz (Quartet 12), which works as a brilliant opening for the program, a beautiful reading of the Beethoven...continue...