Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon

Emerson & Renee Fleming, Thomas Hampson, David Shifrin, Menahem Pressler, Carol Wincenc, Evgeny Kissin

In 2023 geeft het Emerson , zonder twijfel een van de beroemdste strijkkwartetten ter wereld, zijn laatste concert. Ter ere van de meer dan 35 jaar opnameactiviteit van het kwartet zijn twee opnamen uit recente jaren toegevoegd aan hun zeer succesvolle Complete Edition (2016), die nu alleen nog in antiquarische vorm verkrijgbaar is. De box "The New Complete Recordings" bevat dus ook het dubbelalbum "The New York Concert" samen met Evgeny Kissin en de opname "Chaconnes and Fantasias - The Music of Britten and Purcell" uit 2017.

Tot de hoogtepunten van het kwartet, dat talrijke internationale prijzen heeft gewonnen, waaronder negen Grammy Awards, behoren de complete strijkkwartetten van Beethoven, Sjostakovitsj en Bartók en het succesvolle Bach-album "Bach: The Art of Fugue".

De liner notes zijn herzien door Eugene Drucker en bieden een geslaagd overzicht van de geschiedenis van het Emerson . Talrijke foto's van de muzikanten en de originele albumhoezen ronden deze beperkte uitgave af.

Bach, J S:
 The Art of Fugue, BWV1080

Barber:
 Dover Beach, Op. 3
 String Quartet, Op. 11

Bartók:
 String Quartets Nos. 1-6:
  No. 1, Sz 40 (Op. 7)
  No. 2, Sz 67 (Op. 17)
  No. 3, Sz 85
  No. 4, Sz 91
  No. 5, Sz 102
  No. 6, Sz 114

Beethoven String Quartets Nos. 1-16 (complete, inc. Grosse Fuge):
 No. 1 in F major, Op. 18 No. 1
 No. 2 in G major, Op. 18 No. 2
 No. 3 in D major, Op. 18 No. 3
 No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4
 No. 5 in A major, Op. 18 No. 5
 No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6
 No. 7 in F major, Op. 59 No. 1 'Rasumovsky No. 1'
 No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 'Rasumovsky No. 2'
 No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 'Rasumovsky No. 3'
 No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 'Harp'
 No. 11 in F minor Op. 95 'Serioso'
 No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127
 No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130
 No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
 No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
 No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
 Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133

Berg:
 Lyric Suite - for (1926)

Borodin:
 No. 2 in D major

Brahms:
 Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
 O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf, Op. 74 No. 2
 Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
 String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1
 String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2
 String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67

Britten:
 String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36
 String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94

Debussy:
 String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10

Dvorák:
 Cypresses for , B152
 Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat, Op. 87
 Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81
 String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 51 (B92)
 String Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61 (B121)
 String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'
 String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77

Fauré:
 Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15

Grieg:
 String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27

Harbison: 
 String Quartet No. 2 (1987)

Haydn:
 String Quartet, Op. 20 No. 5 in F minor
 String Quartet, Op. 33 No. 2 in E flat major 'The Joke'
 String Quartet, Op. 51 'Seven Last Words'
 String Quartet, Op. 54 No. 1 in G major
 String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 in D major 'The Lark'
 String Quartet, Op. 74 No. 2 in F major
 String Quartet, Op. 74 No. 3 in G minor 'The Rider'
 String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor 'Fifths'
 String Quartet, Op. 77 No. 1 in G major

Ives, C:
 String Quartet No. 1 'From the Salvation Army'
 String Quartet No. 2

Janácek:
 On An Overgrown Path
 String Quartet No. 1 'The Kreutzer Sonata'
 String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters'

Martinu:
 Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola (Duo No. 1), H. 313

Mendelssohn:
 Octet in E flat major, Op. 20

String Quartets Nos. 1-6:
 No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 12
 No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
 No. 3 in D major, Op. 44 No. 1
 No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2
 No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3
 No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80

Meyer, E:
 Quintet (1995)

Mozart:
 Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

Flute Quartets Nos. 1-4
 No. 1 in D major, K285
 No. 2 in G major, K285a
 No. 3 in C major, K285b
 No. 4 in A major, K298

 Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K478
 Six Quartets dedicated to Haydn (Quartets 14-19)

Nielsen:
 At the Bier of a Young Artist - String Quartet and double bass, FS58

Prokofiev:
 Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56
 String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50
 String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92

Puccini:
 Crisantemi

Purcell:
 Chacony in G minor - for Two Violins, Viola and Bass Z730
 Fantazia 10 in E minor, Z. 741
 Fantazia 11 in G major, Z. 742
 Fantazia 6 in F major, Z. 737
 Fantazia 8 in D minor, Z. 739

Ravel:
 String Quartet in F major

Rorem:
 String Quartet No. 4

Schubert:
 String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 ‘Quartettsatz'
 String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde'
 String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden'
 String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D887
 String Quintet in C major, D956

Schuller, Gunther:
 String Quartet No. 3 (1986)

Schumann:
 Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47
 Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
 String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 41 No. 2
 Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57

 String Quartets Nos. 1-15:
  No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49
  No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
  No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
  No. 4 in D major, Op. 83
  No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92
  No. 6 in G major, Op. 101
  No. 7 in F sharp minor, Op. 108
  No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
  No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 117
  No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 118
  No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122
  No. 12 in D flat major, Op. 133
  No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 138
  No. 14 in F sharp major, Op. 142
  No. 15 In E Flat Minor, Op. 144

Sibelius:
 Andante festivo, JS34a
 String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 'Voces Intimae'

Smetana:
 String Quartet No. 1 in E minor 'From My Life'

Tchaikovsky:
 String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

Webern:
 Drei Stücke (three pieces), Op. post. (1913)
 Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909)
 Langsamer Satz, (slow movement), Op. post. (1905)
 Movement for string trio, Op. post, (1925)
 Rondo, Op. post. (1906)
 Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1911-1913)
 String Quartet, Op. 28 (1937-38)
 String Quartet, Op. post. (1905)
 String Trio, Op. 20 (1927)

Wellesz:
 Sonnets For Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Op. 52

Wernick:
 String Quartet No. 4 (1990)

Wolf, H:
 Italian Serenade in G major

Zeisl:
 Komm, süsser Tod