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Cleveland Quartet – Brahms: The Complete String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:36:48 minutes | 3,57 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Please note: this is not a box-set. Each of the ten albums are made available separately.
Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration.
“A quartet in the great tradition,” declared Stereo Review’scritic, commenting on the Cleveland’s Beethoven for RCA Victor, their exclusive label between 1972 and 1987. Most of the ensemble’s recordings for RCA had never appeared on CD. Sony Classical is pleased to offer ten critically acclaimed individual albums as single albums (not a box-set).
The earliest entry, first released in 1973, comprises the three Brahms quartets, idiomatic performances that Gramophone’s enthusiastic reviewer heard as “suffused with a warm and mellow light. Scrupulous attention is given to every detail and yet lyrical phrases are allowed their head. … There is no other complete set of these three works that effectively rivals this new recording.”
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Cleveland Quartet – Beethoven: The Six Early Quartets (2023 Remastered Version) (1980/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:41:41 minutes | 5,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration.
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Cleveland Quartet – Beethoven: The Late String Quartets (2023 Remastered Version) (1983/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:33:06 minutes | 7,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration.
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Cleveland Quartet – Beethoven: The Five Middle Quartets (2023 Remastered Version) (1979/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:44:15 minutes | 5,61 GB | Genre: Classique
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration.
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Cleveland Quartet – Barber: String Quartet, Op. 11 – Ives: String Quartet No. 2 & Scherzo (2023 Remastered) (1976/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:10 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration.
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Cleveland Quartet – Schubert: Octet for Strings and Winds in F Major, D. 803 (2023 Remastered Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:40 minutes | 2,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Schubert’s sunny Octet is sort of an overstuffed version of Beethoven’s popular Septet. Scored for a bountiful array of strings and winds, and sporting six full-length movements that collectively last nearly an hour, the piece is another in the great tradition of Serenade music, so effectively cultivated by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and dozens of other minor composers. Beethoven’s contribution to the genre, the Septet, turned out to be so much more popular than his more serious works that he grew to hate the piece. Schubert’s avowed aim, by contrast, was just this sort of popularity, and he was surely pleased with his success, as he no doubt would have been by this genial performance. –David Hurwitz
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Cleveland Quartet – Schubert: String Quartet No. 14, D. 810 – Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, K. 546 (1974/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:32 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration.
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Cleveland Quartet – Mendelssohn: Octet, Op. 2 & 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81 (1977/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:07 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration.
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Cleveland Quartet – Haydn: String Quartet in D Major “The Lark” & String Quartet in D Minor “Fifths” (2023 Remastered Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:35 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Shortly after its formation at the legendary Marlboro Festival in 1973, the Cleveland Quartet signed a contract with RCA – the young string quartet formation was then able to record many key works until 1979.
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Cleveland Quartet – Brahms: The String Sextets, Op. 18 & Op. 36 (2023 Remastered Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:20:46 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Over the next quarter century, they performed on every continent, including nearly 30 complete Beethoven cycles in the US and Europe. At their peak, the Cleveland Quartet gave more than 100 concerts a year. They became the first classical artists to play on the televised Grammy awards and performed at the White House for President’s Carter inauguration.
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