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This monumental release documents the Emerson String Quartets exceptional longevity and dynamism founded in 1976, they are still as youthfully active and inquisitive as ever 40 years later. Moreover it charts the New York-based ensembles musical breadth, encompassing virtually all of the important repertoire for their formation.

This 52 CD collection includes their complete output on DG and features highlights such as the Nine Grammy Awards, Three Gramophone Magazine Awards; complete cycles by Shostakovich, Beethoven and Bartok; plus String Quartets by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Schubert and many more.

Also included is a Bonus CD with Encores and Audio Guides. New liner notes by the longtime ESQ collaborator Richard Evidon. New introduction by ESQ violinist Eugene Drucker. Numerous rare b/w and color photographs

PACKAGING: A handsomely designed box in the style of the DG Mono box
BONUS CD
Several bonus downloads Video: Mendelssohn - Making of the Octet Audio: Intimate Voices - Listening guide
Beethoven: The Key to the Quartets (engl.)
Beethoven: Michael Steinbergs original liner notes (engl.)
Shostakovich: Paul Epsteins original liner notes (engl.)
Bartok: Ludwig Finschers original liner notes (engl.)

CD 1: SCHUBERT - String Quartet D810 Death and The Maiden BEETHOVEN - Quartet in F minor op. 95
CD 2 3: BARTÓK - The 6 String Quartets
CD 4: DEBUSSY - String Quartet in G minor op. 10 RAVEL - String Quartet in F major
CD 5: TCHAIKOVSKY - String Quartet no. 1 in D major BORODIN - String Quartet no. 2
CD 6: HAYDN - String Quartet op. 74 no. 2 Emperor Schubert String Quartet D 804 Schubert String Quartet D 703
CD 7: BEETHOVEN - String Quartet in F major, op. 135 SCHUBERT - String Quartet in G major, D887
CD 8: DVORAK - String Quartet no. 12 American SMETANA - String Quartet no. 1 in E minor From my life
CD 9: BRAHMS - String Quartet no 1 SCHUMANN - String Quartet no. 2
CD 10: MOZART - Flute Quartets nos. 1 4 Carol Wincenc, flute
CD 11: PROKOFIEV - String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 Sonata for 2 Violins
CD 12: SCHUBERT - String Quintet in C major D956 Mstislav Rostorpovich, cello
CD 13 15: MOZART - The 6 Haydn Quartets
CD 16: IVES - String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 BARBER - String Quartet BARBER: Dover Beach / Thomas Hampson
CD 17: HARBISON / WERNICK / SCHULLER - String Quartets
CD 18: DVORAK - Piano Quintet op. 81 Piano Quartet op. 87 Menahem Pressler, piano
CD 19: WEBERN - Works for String Quartet Mary Ann McCormick
CD 20: SCHUMANN - Piano Quintet in E flat major op. 44 Piano Quartet op. 47 Menahem Pressler, piano
CD 21-27: BEETHOVEN The String Quartets
CD 28: MEYER - Quintet Edgar Meyer, double bass ROREM - String Quartet no. 4
CD 29: MOZART - Clarinet Quintet BRAHMS - Clarinet Quintet David Shifrin
CD 30-34: SHOSTAKOVICH - The String Quartets
CD 35-36: THE HAYDN PROJECT / String Quartets Op. 20 No.5, 33 No.2, 54 No.1, 64 No.5, 74 No.3, 76 No.2 and 77 No.1
CD 37: J. S. BACH - The Art of Fugue
CD 38: HAYDN - Seven Last Words op. 51
CD 39-42: MENDELSSOHN - The String Quartets
CD 43: GRIEG / NIELSEN / SIBELIUS - Intimate Voices
CD 44-45: BRAHMS - String Quartets & Piano Quintet Leon Fischer, piano
CD 46: J. S. BACH - Fugues from The Well-tempered Clavier
CD 47: JANACEK - Intimate Letters, String Quartets MARTIN : Madrigals for Violin and Viola
CD 48-50: DVORAK - The String Quartets String Quintet Op. 97 / Paul Neubauer Cypresses B. 152
CD 51: BERG - Lyric Suite WELLESZ - Sonnets from the Portuguese ZEISL - Komm, süsser Tod Renée Fleming
CD 52 (Bonus): Encores & Audio Guides 82:51 Brahms: O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf op. 74/2 Sibelius: Andante Festivo Janá ek: On an Overgrown Path I Wolf: Italian Serenade Puccini: Crisantemi Haydn, Seven Last Words Listening Guide A Journey Through Mendelssohn s Quartets Listening Guide