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Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Chamber
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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... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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The Kuss Quartet artfully exploits its disruptive mischief and innate asymmetry … Wit lights up this account, every joke perfectly timed, every nuance explored … Mojca Erdmann…is in her element... —
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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. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Berg: String Quartet – Webern: Langsamer Satz – Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2
RecommendedHeath Quartet (string 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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th July 2022
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Editor's Choice
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The Second Quartet’s yearning first movement and the desperate scutterings of its scherzo are conveyed in febrile, hyper-Romantic style…Yet the Gringolt’s precision and finesse in the Fourth... —
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Special offer. Schoenberg: Piano Arrangements
Claudia Barainsky (soprano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Urs Liska (piano), Andreas Grau (piano), Gotz Schumacher (piano), Irmela Roelcke (piano)
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Special offer. Schoenberg - Complete Works for Strings
Schoenberg Quartet, Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Roberto Benzi
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