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The Emerson String Quartet makes its PENTATONE debut with a recording of Schumann’s three string quartets.

Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, The New York Concert features Evgeny Kissin in a rare performance as a chamber musician, performing with the nine-time Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary as well as the arrival of new cellist Paul Watkins, the Emerson String Quartet releases Chaconnes and Fantasias - Music of Britten and Purcell.

With six Grammy Awards and two Gramophone Awards, the Emerson String Quartet bestrides the world of chamber music like a colossus.

This release unites star soprano Renee Fleming and the Emerson String Quartet for the first time on a journey to Vienna in the `20s and `30s, through music imbued with late romanticism and burgeoning modernism.

For their new album, Journeys, Emerson String Quartet performs two string sextets from the 1890's, Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky and Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) by Arnold Schoenberg.

Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 21 - 23 ('Prussian'), K. 575, 589, 590

Fresh off its ninth Grammy win for last year's album Intimate Letters, the Emerson String Quartet releases Old World-New World for Deutsche Grammophon on Tuesday, April 13, 2010.

The world-renowned and unparalleled Emerson String Quartet, which has already produced over thirty award-winning albums, applies its unmistakable intensity and energy to its latest release, Intimate Letters, an exploration of the personally expressive works of two great Czech composers: Leoš Janácek's String Quartet No. 1 "after Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata"; String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters"; and Bohuslav Martinu's Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola. Best Chamber Music Performance, 52nd annual GRAMMY Awards (2010)

Following its most successful recording, The Art of Fugue, the Emerson String Quartet again dedicates its mastery to the music of J.S. Bach.

The Emerson String Quartet devotes itself to Romantic masterpieces from the Nordic lands: Grieg's haunting, forward-looking G minor Quartet and Sibelius's emotionally intense D minor Quartet, Intimate Voices, a watershed work in his career.

Trust the Emerson Quartet to do nothing by halves. This 4-CD set presents all of Mendelssohn's quartets, including one written at 14, the five pieces Op. 81, as well as the Octet.

Recorded at New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters in October and November 2002.

Emerson String Quartet (string quartet), Eugene Drucker (violin), Philip Setzer (violin), Lawrence Dutton (viola), David Finckel (cello)

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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Emerson Quartet has made its first all-Haydn recording, featuring seven of his most famous quartets on two CDs.

Composers have always reserved the expression of their deepest, most personal feelings for the string quartet; Beethoven comes to mind, and more recently Alban Berg, Janácek, and, of course, Shostakovich, whose 15 quartets are an opaque, frequently encoded, almost autobiographical outpouring of the public and private agony endured by the creative artist under totalitarianism. The Emerson Quartet, committed champion of contemporary music, has just released the Shostakovich quartets on a five-disc set; chronologically arranged, they reflect his growing personal and political travail.

The Emersons and clarinetist Shifrin emphasize smoothness of line and a creamy blend of sound in this polished 1997 performance of the Mozart quintet.

Deutsche Grammophon's affordable Trio series revives great recordings from the past, many long unavailable and coveted by collectors. Yet this 2004 triple-disc set of Schubert's late string quartets and the Quintet in C major, performed by the Emerson String Quartet and Mstislav Rostropovich, is identical to the 1999 release in all respects except for packaging and price, and will be superfluous to owners of the first edition.

Three Piano Pieces, Pawnee Preludes, Monsterslayer

To varying extents, these three pieces by John Harbison, Richard Wernick, and Gunther Schuller represent a rapprochement with the history of the string quartet, both in the adoption of recognizable Classical movement structures and in the adaptation of tonal elements in a modernist context.

Best Chamber Music Performance, 36th annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)

Quartet No. 1 in b, Op. 50; Sonata Two Violins in C, Op. 56; Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 92.

Flute Quartet in D, K. 285; Flute Quartet in G, K. 285a; Flute Quartet in A, K. Anh. 171; Rondo in G, arr. of K. 494

Mozart: String Quartet No. 18 in A, K.464 - 1. Allegro · Emerson String Quartet

Best Classical Recording and Best Chamber Music Performance, 32nd annual GRAMMY Awards (1990)

Originally released by Book-of-the-Month Club in 1984 it was then rereleased by Deutsche Grammophon in 1990.