Emerson String Quartet reviews
R Schumann: String Quartets Nos 1-3
Emerson String Quartet (Pentatone)
The Emerson Quartet performs Britten's String Quartets Nos 2 and 3 and chamber works by Purcell
Britten composed his String Quartet No. 2 in 1945 for the 250th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell, and its earliest recording, by the Zorian String Quartet, included Purcell’s Fantasia Upon One Note as a fill-up, with Britten himself playing the Note on his viola.
The Emerson String Quartet and Renée Fleming Perform Berg and Wellesz
Berg's Lyric Suite and Wellesz's Sonette der Elisabeth Barrett Browning
Emerson String Quartet: Old World , New World
Apart from his last operatic phase, chamber music and the string quartet in particular is the most trustworthy barometer of Dvoπák’s changes in style. String quartets plot the major developments in style of the 1870s, from experimentalism to the greater-quality Classicism of his early maturity; they reappear during his American stay and follow him back to Bohemia in 1895 with two final masterpieces.