Browse: Schoenberg (composer), String Quartets
This page lists all recordings composed by Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951).
-
[The Dutilleux] is played here with breathtaking brilliance...the performance of Verklärte Nacht is worth waiting for, its extraordinary attention to detail and clarity never achieved at the... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber
CD
$15.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Infinite Voyage
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Emerson String Quartet
Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
CD
$16.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
The Gringolts Quartet play both works with absolute mastery, and it would be difficult to imagine more convincing performances. Lingering particularly in the memory is the middle section of the... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Chamber Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Chamber
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
-
Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
CD
$14.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Berg: String Quartet – Webern: Langsamer Satz – Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2
RecommendedHeath Quartet, Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
The Heath Quartet convey the [Schoenberg’s] often intimate intensity with great sensitivity, and Carolyn Sampson’s warm lyricism is ideal both in the forward-looking finale, and in the slow movement... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 15th July 2022
CD
$15.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Here's a recording that offers rewards on so many levels...It's wonderful to hear Schoenberg played not only with such flawless intonation, but also with such understanding for the way the music... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Chamber Choice
CD
$16.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
their new account under Heinz Holliger unfolds at relatively steady tempos, with more compositional logic than late Romantic passion...[Holliger's] deployment of a relatively small string line-up... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Orchestral
CD
$16.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Quatuor Diotima
The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience. — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Chamber
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
this is heartening – another group in the first flush of youth are prepared to defy the prevailing narrative about Schoenberg representing crusty academic modernism and, instead, make a powerful... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Editor's Choice
2 CDs
$27.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4
Recordings supervised by Robert Craft
Fred Sherry String Quartet
the energy and eloquence of Fred Sherry and his colleagues ensure that the effect is never merely strenuous, never turgid. Though often aggressive, the music dances and sings...Thorough but life-affirming,... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
CD
$13.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
