Kuss Quartet - Beethoven: The String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sviatoslav Richter's discography is one of the most disorderly and complex. Organizing an InchorganicInch collection of studio recordings, was the task of this 2-album box. In this way it is possible to access the teaching of this eclectic pianist, caught in his golden years, in the most complex repertoire of the Polish composer. Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist of German extraction (German father). He was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century and is sometimes proposed as the greatest of all. He was well known for his vast repertoire, effortless technique and poetic phrasing. Despite his huge discography, Sviatoslav Richter hated the process of recording. Glenn Gould called him one of the most powerful musical communicators of our time, and it was in concert that Richter's musical genius found it's full expression.

Limited Edition 10CD box set. The Lindsay String Quartet's award-winning and first Beethoven cycle (1979-83), originally recorded for ASV risk-taking musicianship at the highest level. 'We had spent more time on rehearsing and trying to understand Beethoven than any other composer he was a God to us,' writes cellist Bernard Gregor-Smith. Through the course of their 40-year career, the Lindsay String Quartet was synonymous above all with the string quartets of Beethoven. They began playing together in 1966 while still students at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Six years later, Ronald Birks took the second violin chair to join leader Peter Cropper, violist Roger Bigley and cellist Bernard Gregor-Smith. As the quartet in residence at the universities of Sheffield and Manchester, they began to scale the monuments of the repertoire, and they developed a collective identity - 'the Lindsays' sound' - which became much better known once they started to record the quartets of Beethoven for the Enigma tag in the late 1970s. Opp 74 and then the six Op 18 quartets were released as analogue LPs before the Lindsays moved to the ASV tag and recorded the rest of the cycle with new digital technology. Instantly recognisable even now and quite distinct from the ensembles of note who came before and after them, the Lindsays always sounded like a quartet of four discrete and entirely individual personalities. They soon became celebrated for a fierce, even ferocious commitment to both the notes on the page (taking Beethoven's repeat marks seriously when it was still unfashionable to do so) and to the sometimes rough, often tough and yet elevated spirit of music that still sets a benchmark for both ensembles and listeners. The Lindsays left nothing in the rehearsal studio, even when the red light was on. Already in this first cycle, the Lindsays take chances, stress the forward-lo

The Cypress String Quartet completes their cycle of the genre's greatest oeuvre with a two-album set of Beethoven's six ground-breaking quartets, Op. 18, alongside a reissue of their previously self-released recording of the late quartets. For the past several seasons, the Cypresses have immersed themselves in performing Beethoven on tours throughout the U.S. and Europe as well as recording all 16 works plus the InchGrande FugueInch (Groe Fuge). The completion of their Beethoven cycle is a fitting celebration of the Bay Area-based ensemble's 20th anniversary, as well as their valedictory season their final performance will take place in June 2016, preceded by a month-long Beethoven celebration performing all of the quartets throughout San Francisco. Album Tracks 1. Beethoven Late String Quartets String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127 2. Beethoven Late String Quartets String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127 3. Beethoven Late String Quartets String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127 4. Beethoven Late String Quartets String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127 5. String Quartet No. 15 in a Minor, Op. 132 6. String Quartet No. 15 in a Minor, Op. 132 7. String Quartet No. 15 in a Minor, Op. 132 8. String Quartet No. 15 in a Minor, Op. 132 9. String Quartet No. 15 in a Minor, Op. 132 1. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 2. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 3. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 4. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 5. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 6. String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 Original Finale (1825) Grosse Fuge Overtura - Fuga (Op. 133) 7. String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 Original Finale (1825) Grosse Fuge Overtura - Fuga (Op. 133) 1. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp minor, Op. 131 2. String Quartet