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Beethoven:
The Complete Quartets
The Grammy Award-winning Cleveland Quartet offer legendary
performances of the entire cycle of Beethoven string quartets.
This eight-CD set is the culmination of twenty-five years
of refined, worldrenowned string playing.
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Beethoven:
String Quartets Op. 132 in A Minor Op. 135 in F Major
Following
the disbanding of the Cleveland Quartet in 1996, Telarc released
their farewell recording, featuring the debut of the String
Quartet by Corigliano. The coupling on this release features
the last complete composition Beethoven wrote: the Quartet
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Beethoven:String
Quartets Op. 127 in E-Flat Major, Op. 131 in C-Sharp Minor
In 1995, the Cleveland Quartet recorded the complete Beethoven
cycle for Telarc. With the release of this recording, the
series is complete.
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Beethoven:
String Quartet, Op. 130
Beethoven's last five string quartets were his final musical
ideas and they were not particularly appreciated, or even
understood, in his own time. This recording presents the Cleveland
Quartet performing Beethoven's Op.130 and Grosse Fuge, Op.
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Corigliano:
Quartet & Haydn: Quartet, Op. 76, No. 5
This release features the debut recording of John Corigliano's
String Quartet commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts for the farewell tour of the Cleveland Quartet. Also
performed on this release is Haydn's String Quartet in D Major,
Op. 76, No. 5. |
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Beethoven:
String Quartets, Op. 18, Nos. 4 & 5
In his first set of quartets, published as Opus 18, Beethoven
showed that he had thoroughly understood and absorbed the
compositional accomplishments of Mozart and Haydn in this
genre. The conversational independence of the four instruments
and the lyricism, drama, wit and suspense contained in these
quartets make these pieces among Beethoven's most extraordinary
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Beethoven:
String Quartets, Op. 18; Nos. 1, 2 & 3
"The
playing is highly polished and technically impeccable, phrases
tend to be long and tempos correspondingly lively...If you're
collecting the Cleveland series, this is a worthy volume."
—American Record Guide
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Beethoven:
String Quartets Op. 74 & Op. 95
"Few
string quartets acheive such variously beautiful sonorities
or such consistently impeccable intonation." —Classic
CD
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Brahms:
Quartets in A minor & C minor
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Mozart:
String Quartets No. 14, K.387 & No. 15, K.421
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Dvorak:
Quartet No. 12 in F American & Quartet No. 14
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Beethoven:
String Quartets Op. 59, No. 2 & 59, No. 3
"The absolute cleanliness of tone, even balance, and
superbly sustained pacing produces as strong a pair of performances
as have been issued on record by any quartet anywhere."
—Fanfare
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Beethoven:
Quartet in B-flat major & Quartet in F major
With the release of these two quartets, the Cleveland Quartet
embarks on a recording cycle of Beethoven’s complete
string quartets on Telarc. The Cleveland Quartet has been
called “second to none” by the Boston Globe. The
ensemble’s commitment, virtuosity, and refinement of
tone and style have been widely noted by critics and performers,
and are hallmarks of each release in this series. |
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Schubert:
Trout Quintet & A minor Quartet
"...the group still preserves the virtues that originally
attracted me: a big, warm sounds; an unfailingly probing and
original approach...a good sense of musical structure, and
plenty of controlled emotion." —Fanfare
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Borodin:
Quartet No. 2 & Smetana: Quartet No. 1
"The Cleveland Quartet play these two works admirably.
A model for a fine record and a true musical experience."
—Audio
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Mendelssohn:
Quartet No. 2 & Octet
Octet performed with Meliora Quartet
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Debussy:
Quartet in G major & Ravel: Quartet in F major
"The Cleveland Quartet does true justice to these two
chamber-music masterworks...the Cleveland performs with
delicate nuance and feeling." —High Performance
Review
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Other Recordings |
Beethoven
The Six Early Quartets:
Op. 18, Nos. 1 - 6
RCA (ARL3 – 3486)
Beethoven
The Five Middle Quartets:
Op. 59, Nos. 1 - 3; Op. 74; Op. 95
RCA (ARL4 – 3010)
Beethoven
The Late Quartets: Op. 127; Op. 130;
Op. 131; Op. 132; Op. 133; Op. 135
RCA (ARL4 – 4509)
RCA (ARL1 – 1047)
“Two American
Masterpieces"
Barber String Quartet, Op. 11
Ives String Quartet No. 2 and Scherzo
for
String Quartet
RCA
(ARL1 – 1599)
Brahms
The Complete String Quartets:
Op. 51, No. 1 in C minor; No. 2 in
A minor; Op. 67 in B-flat major
RCA (VCS – 7102)
Brahms
The String Sextets:
Op. 18 in B-flat major, Op. 36 in G major
(with Pinchas Zukerman, viola and Bernard Greenhouse,
cello)
RCA (ARL2 – 4054, ARK2 - 4054 (cassette))
Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
(with Richard Stolzman)
RCA (ARK1 – 1993)
Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
(with Emanuel Ax)
RCA (RCD1-4954)
Dohnányi
Serenade for String Trio in C major, Op. 10
Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 26
(with Barry Snyder, piano)
Pro
Arte (CDD 238, PCD 238 (cassette))
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Videos |
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In
the Mainstream: The Cleveland Quartet
This 52 minute multi award-winning documentary follows the
illustrious string quartet as they play, teach and record
around the world. Film by Fred Salaff. (Image and text courtesy
of Golden Age Productions) |
