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| | Emerson String Quartet performs two all-Shostakovich programs at the UI Oct. 20, 22 |
 | | The concert and discussion by the Emerson String Quartet are part of "Russian Un-Orthodox," a series of fall concerts and other events at the UI focusing on music from Russia from the 20th century. | | | The quartet’s artistry has been the subject of two award-winning films, and their schedule of more than 100 concerts each season takes them to the world’s musical capitals, including benefit concerts to fight AIDS, world hunger and children’s diseases. | | | The Emerson String Quartet, an ensemble that has become a frequent visitor to the UI, has won three Grammy Awards, and Gramophone’s Record of the Year Award -- becoming the first chamber music ensemble ever to win the magazine’s top honor. |
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| | ipedia.com: String quartet Article |
| | Although any combination of four string instruments may be called a "string quartet", in practice, the term almost always refers to a group consisting of two violins (the "first" and "second" violin), one viola and one cello. | | | A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string musical instruments or a piece written to be performed by such a group. | | | This combination of instruments is widely seen as one of the most important forms in chamber music, with most major composers writing string quartets. |
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| | classical music - andante - 'e pluribus unum' - the emerson string quartet plays mendelssohn, bach and beethoven |
| | The Emersons are in Mendelssohn mode because they just released a four-CD album that features all the under-appreciated 19th-century German composer's quartets plus the Octet. | | | The concert was the first of four in which the Emersons will perform the entire cycle of Mendelssohn quartets at Zankel. | | | Although their gestures resemble those of four great soloists, their sound is a cohesive consensus of erudite musical opinion. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet - 19 Feb 2001 - INKPOT |
| | Listeners familiar with the Emerson from their recordings might not have recognized them at first hearing, though - the niggardly acoustics of the concert hall doing no favours for them. | | | WILLIAM BEH is glad he brought his own CD covers along to be signed, seeing as how all the Emerson CDs in the lobby were sold out within minutes of going on sale. | | | I'd proffer the explanation that in a very practical sense, the Emerson's unabashedly modern high-flying treatement of the music simply will not go down well with some. |
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| | Boston.com / A&E / Music / Emerson String Quartet has good timing |
| | Their next release is a four CD set of the complete Mendelssohn string quartets and the composer's Octet. | | | The Emersons, who release one album per year, selected the Haydn because of a long-standing desire to master it. | | | The Emersons play it with the tenderness and lyricism that their audiences have come to expect. |
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http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/04/11/emerson_string_quartet_has_good_timing
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| | Amazon.com: Complete String Quartets [BOX SET]: Music |
| | Despite being often criticized as shallow, I chose the Emerson set for three reasons: I have their Bartok cycle which I think is mind-blowing (I have listened to lots of other interpretations of Bartok's quartets, particularly the third and fourth, and the Emersons have everyone beat). | | | The Emerson's recording history shows a wildly uneven output: their Brahms, Bach, Schubert, and Mozart CDs are great contributions to the oevre and quite nicely done. | | | Finally, the Emersons recorded this set live (the only audience noise is applause at the end of each piece), and I thought that might be more intense. |
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| | pitch.com Echo Emerson String Quartet 2000-05-04 |
| | The quartet is probably the most convincing challenger of the popular notion that chamber music must be airless and starched. | | | As good as the Haydn was, and as effective as the dénouement turned out to be (Debussy's Quartet in G minor), the Shostakovich made the concert an event. | | | That seems odd until you consider the necessarily instantaneous kick of a piece written for four musicians compared to a full symphony. |
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http://www.pitch.com/issues/2000-05-04/echo5.html
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| | Emerson String Quartet |
| | The Emerson's subsequent release of the cycle received the 1989 Grammy Awards for "Best Classical Album" and "Best Chamber Music Performance" and Gramophone Magazine's 1989 "Record of the Year Award" - the first time in the history of each award that a chamber music ensemble had ever received the top prize. | | | Throughout its 27-year history, the Emerson String Quartet has garnered an international reputation for groundbreaking chamber music projects and correlated recordings for Deutsche Grammophon. | | | Dedicated to the performance of classical repertoire, the Emerson String Quartet also has a strong commitment to the commissioning and performance of 20th- and 21st-century music. |
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| | The Emerson String Quartet |
| | Beethoven's late string quartets are among the most profound works in Western music, encompassing human life in all its conflict and joy. | | | Ludwig van Beethoven's music stands at the center of western culture, and his 16 string quartets make up the heart of that music. | | | Bill McGlaughlin is your guide - and be sure to switch on the audio for some wonderful Beethoven as you browse. |
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| | Greg Sandow -- Emerson String Quartet |
| | The E flat quartet starts with solid affirmation that all at once evaporates, leaving music that could almost have been woven out of air. | | | Their fast tempi are a deliberate choice, inspired partly by Beethoven's own controversial indications -- late in life, he specified rapid speeds in precisely measured beats per minute (but he was deaf, so how could he know if he was right?) -- and partly by their reading of his character. | | | Setzer, playing first violin in the G major quartet (he and Mr. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet - Buy rare Emerson String Quartet music cds and vinyl record albums |
| | Emerson String Quartet Music - Buy Rare CDs and Vinyl Records Albums - Hard to Find CD's & Out-of-Print LPs | | | Emerson String Quartet - Buy rare Emerson String Quartet music cds and vinyl record albums | | | buy cds by emerson string quartet, rare records, vinyl music, LPs, CD's, imports, videos, posters, out of print, used emerson string quartet cds |
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| | UCSD Events |
| | The Emerson’s most ambitious recording project to date has been the complete quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, begun in 1994 and released in 1997 to critical acclaim and a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Recording. | | | The group’s recording of the six Bartók quartets was the 1989-90 Grammy Award-winning Best Classical Album. | | | The quartet appears regularly throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and Australia and has appeared with virtually every chamber music series and festival worldwide. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet gets lesson in acoustics - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | Although Dmitri Shostakovich is best known for his 15 symphonies, he also wrote 15 string quartets, most of which are still rarely performed in the West. | | | Violinist Philip Setzer led the performance of the first string quartet composed by Ludwig van Beethoven that opened the concert. | | | For those sitting downstairs, the performance of the Brahms was limited by the weak sound of the piano. |
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| | Classical CD Guide -- Top 10 Essential Schubert CDs to Start Your Classical Music Collection |
| | String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden" | | | Throw in some lyrical melodies and harmonic surprises, and the result is a Romantic twist on the late eighteenth-century tradition of the serenade. | | | The crescendo at the beginning is a microcosm of the piece as a whole; the intensity builds throughout the piece and comes to a climax after nearly fifty minutes of music. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet lights up Leighton - The Observer - Scene |
| | As classical music in general sees its place in the recording industry dwindling, the quartet is grateful for the successful partnership they have had with Grammophon since the late eighties. | | | In addition to Saturday evening's concert, the Emerson String Quartet also held a two-hour master class in the Leighton Concert Hall that afternoon for chamber music students. | | | Students such as pianist Kui Min, cellist Noelle Thorn and violinist Leila Taschek performed chamber works for quartet members Eugene Drucker and Lawrence Dutton, including a piano trio by Dvorak and one of Beethoven's string quartets. |
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| | Stereophile: Climbing Everest Barefoot: the Emerson String Quartet |
| | The first digital recording of the complete Shostakovich cycle, it was recorded in concert over the course of four years at the Aspen Music Festival. | | | In 1988, they recorded all six of Bart& quartets, which they had begun performing as a single concert program. | | | Yes, recorded live—specifically because the Emerson believes that the audience's intense concentration brings an audible energy to the recordings. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet - New York Magazine Classical Music Review |
| | Besides, the Emerson doesn’t exactly shun new music, even if its main brief is the classic literature—the string quartets of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Bart&, and Shostakovich. | | | Keeping this music before audiences is surely not such a bad thing, especially since the Emerson’s refined performance style has come to set a standard for today’s American string quartets, just as the Juilliard quartet’s did a generation ago. | | | I expect there will be similar musical rewards to savor later this month at the Emerson’s concerts in Alice Tully Hall, on April 14 and 28. |
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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/n_10169
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| | Biography of Emerson String Quartet |
| | Deutsche Grammophon supports these series with a release of the complete Mendelssohn quartets; the recording also includes a performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet, in which the Emerson members play all eight parts. | | | Release of CD containing Webern’s complete works for string quartet (50th anniversary of composer’s death) and one of music for piano and strings by Schumann (with Menahem Pressler); individual ESQ members awarded honorary doctorates by Middlebury College, Vermont | | | Gramophone singles out their Bartók Quartets not only as "Best Chamber Music Recording" but also as "Record of the Year" |
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Emerson Encores (W/2 New Track |
| | Their "key" to the Beethoven quartets, featuring movements from several of the 16, is one such album. | | | This disks offers those who are beggining to hear music through this difficult medium (the string quartett), a very varied selection of some of the best music written for this medium, some recommendations would be the Beethoven, the Shostakovich, the Debussy, etc. The Emerson Quartett leaves you very satisfied with this selections. | | | This disk is a must be for anyone who is beggining to explore the so-called "pure music": the string quartett. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet News |
| | In between playing chamber music with the Emerson String Quartet and arranging to be the next president of the Curtis Institute of Music, Roberto Daz has been practicing Bartk. | | | In addition to Saturday evening's concert, the Emerson String Quartet also held a two-hour master class in the Leighton Concert Hall that afternoon for chamber music students. | | | For New Orleans Friends of Music, which brought all... |
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| | iClassics |
| | The ESQ recorded Mendelssohn's Octet in two sessions that were then mixed together. | | | Also, download a listening guide on the Mendelssohn quartets narrated by the quartet themselves. | | | Two exclusive tracks from the "Scherzo" — available on iTunes — allow you to hear these recordings as they sounded before being mixed together. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet - Wikipedia |
| | This article on a band or other musical ensemble is a stub. | | | Formed in 1976, they have released over twenty albums and won six Grammy Awards. | | | Emerson String Quartet for Beethoven: The String Quartets (1998) |
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| | Emerson String Quartet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Eugene Drucker, (Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow) violin | | | They have performed since the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s, released over twenty albums and won six (Click link for more info and facts about Grammy Awards) Grammy Awards. | | | The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City–based (An instrumental quartet with 2 violins and a viola and a cello) string quartet. |
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| | ArkivMusic Beethoven: The String Quartets / Emerson String Quartet |
| | Beethoven's string quartets sit atop the world of classical music. | | | The cycle of 15 presents enough interpretive and technical challenges to keep performers and listeners occupied for a lifetime. | | | This set received the 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Chamber Music Performance." It was also nominated for the Award for "Best Classical Album." |
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| | Sensible Sound: Shostakovitch: The String Quartets (complete) Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon 289 463 ... |
| | This 5-CD set was recorded in live performances in front of remarkably quiet audiences. | | | Sensible Sound: Shostakovitch: The String Quartets (complete) Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon 289 463 284-2, 5-CD set).(Review) (sound recording review) | | | Shostakovitch: The String Quartets (complete) Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon 289 463 284-2, 5-CD set).(Review) (sound recording review) |
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| | Guardian Emerson String Quartet |
| | But their impassioned interpretations gave the lie to Mendelssohn's reputation as a prolific but superficial genius, and instead they revealed music of sometimes visionary intensity. | | | 12, was an ambitious musical experiment: the whole movement was based in C minor before a final, surprising resolution to the home key, brilliantly dramatised in the Emersons' performance. | | | Even the major-key serenity of the Emersons' playing could not hide the pain of the music, as if the piece were still haunted by the minor-key ghosts of its earlier movements. |
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| | The Emerson String Quartet |
| | The latest of these musical matinees featured the Emerson String Quartet, which seemed to have no problem in getting into the spirit of things as the four musicians (all fathers themselves) initiated their young audience into some of the more accessible beauties of this lofty genre. | | | Perhaps the best way to draw youngsters in is by having them listen to their peers perform -- a sight that apparently appeals to doting parents as well, judging from the expressions of adult enchantment as seven tots between 6 and 10 sawed away on their miniature cellos. | | | As a prelude to the main event, preconcert activities in other parts of the building set the mood by playing variations on the theme of the afternoon, including string-playing pupils (primarily from the Diller-Quaile School of Music) to help demystify the instruments. |
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| | Stoltzman, Emerson String Quartet to perform |
| | The Emerson String Quartet, which has assumed the unofficial mantle of the world's best string quartet, is the winner of three Grammy Awards and is the only chamber music ensemble ever to win the Grammy for "Best Classical Album." | | | Stoltzman is considered one of the most influential barrier breakers in classical music and the first solo clarinetist since Benny Goodman to transcend the boundaries between classical, jazz and popular music. | | | Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and the Emerson String Quartet will open the 1997-98 Cornell Concert Series with a performance Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. |
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| | reviewvancouver: Emerson String Quartet: J H. Stape> |
| | If ever a programme seemed designed to ward off wintry blasts, the one offered by The Emerson String Quartet in the fifth concert of The Friends of Chamber Music 2004-05 season surely fits the bill. | | | For that matter, it did throughout this evening of consummately intelligent, thoroughly musical string playing. | | | The Emerson reached for an almost orchestral sound in the quartet's closing measures. |
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| | Saint Paul Sunday: The Emerson String Quartet Discography |
| | Emerson String Quartet Plays 50 Years of American Music | | | Saint Paul Sunday: The Emerson String Quartet Discography | | | View the Saint Paul Sunday Emerson String Quartet Web feature, The Emerson Expedition. |
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| | Speaking With A United Voice / Emerson String Quartet gets serious with Beethoven |
| | Local audiences might have hoped for some Shostakovich, since the group has just come from a highly acclaimed series of New York concerts dedicated to all 15 of the composer's quartets and has recorded them superbly for Deutsche Grammophon. | | | But Sunday's rewards were substantial enough to silence any grumbling. | | | Although the group takes its name from the American essayist and has made memorable recordings of the music of Ives and Barber, there can also be something patrician and Old World about its playing. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet biography .ms |
| | They have performed since the 1970s, released over twenty albums and won six Grammy Awards. | | | The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York City based string quartet. |
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| | NPR : Emerson String Quartet |
| | All Things Considered, January 9, 2005 · A New York string quartet does the work of two music groups. | | | Hear Joel Rose of Philadelphia member station WHYY. |
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| | Orange County Performing Arts Center > On Stage > Emerson String Quartet |
| | With six Grammy Awards, including two unprecedented honors for Best Classical Album, the Emerson has an astonishing -- and ever growing -- list of impressive achievements. | | | Orange County Performing Arts Center > On Stage > Emerson String Quartet |
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| | David Finckel and Wu Han 3 Biographies |
| | They serve as Artistic Directors of both the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Music@Menlo, a Silicon Valley chamber music festival founded in 2003. | | | Their appearances take them to the world’s most prestigious concert series and festivals as soloists, as a duo, and in David’s case, as cellist of the Emerson String Quartet. |
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| | 110; and Schubert: Quartet in d minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden”, considered to be one of Schubert’s finest chamber works which has always occupied a favored spot in the string quartet repertory. | | | The third performance of the Emerson String Quartet will include Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, op. | | | 18 no. 1; Shostakovich: Quartet No. 8 in c minor, op. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet; 2002-01-20 |
| | This was one of the most enjoyable concerts that it has been my pleasure to attend. | | | At that time the idea of a concert of six Haydn Quartets was beyond belief to me. By 2002 I eagerly looked forward to it for I had been able to discover the wonders of these works. | | | I remember seeing the group in the San Francisco Peninsula in the foothills northwest of Stanford University in the mid-80's; they were doing a Beethoven cycle which was something which I could not miss. |
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| | bond, all-female classical quartet: firing up classical music, Tania... | | | All information updated as of Sunday October 23, 2005 | | | String Quartet Aviv String Quartet Balanescu Quartet Belcea Quartet Bond (band) Borodin Quartet Brandis Quartet Brentano Quartet Brodsky... |
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| | Cosmopolis Music Archives |
| | Brendel, Alfred and Alban Berg Quartet CD Chang, Sarah CD Chicago Symphony Orchestra history, CDs, concert at the Lucerne Festival 2001 | | | Mutter, Anne-Sophie and Krzysztof Penderecki biographies, concert review | | | Shostakovich biography and the sting quartets performed by the Emerson String Quartet |
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| | The Emerson String Quartet |
| | David Finckel and pianist Wu Han perform with an ensemble of chamber music’s hottest rising stars, selected from the young artist programs of Music@Menlo and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. | | | The group has amassed an impressive list of achievements: a brilliant series of recordings exclusively documented by Deutsche Grammophon since 1987; six Grammy Awards including two unprecedented honors for “Best Classical Album”; three Gramophone magazine awards; and performances of the complete cycles of Beethoven, Bartok, and Shostakovich quartets in major concert halls around the world. | | | Acclaimed for its insightful performances, brilliant artistry, and technical mastery, the Emerson String Quartet is one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles. |
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| | Tower Records - Meyer: Quintet; Rorem: Quartet no 4 /Emerson String Quartet |
| | Tower Records - Meyer: Quintet; Rorem: Quartet no 4 /Emerson String Quartet | | | While each of the Quartet's ten movements bears the title of a Picasso work, there is nothing particularly programmatic about the music. | | | Ned Rorem is one of the deans of American music, composing in every genre imaginable while always maintaining his own unique voice. |
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| | Emerson String Quartet |
| | "...the Emerson played with vigor and style...infusing the familiar music with energy and transparency." | | | "Few string quartets have regularly displayed such individuality among members -- an ideal stance for coloring and differentiating the complex strands of the fugues." | | | Copyright © Emerson String Quartet, All Rights Reserved • Powered by ArtistManager.Net |
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| | BACH Fugue in D Minor, BWV 877 (arr. | | | MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. | | | MENDELSSOHN Capriccio in E Minor for String Quartet, Op. |
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| | The Life and Family of Elizabeth Anne VanderPutten - The Emerson String Quartet |
| | Once Upon a Time I Attended an Emerson String Quartet Concert | | | In 1989, I added the Emerson String Quartet's annual concert series at the Smithsonian to my agenda, which I usually attend with my friend Martha Mednick. | | | The year 2002 marked the Emerson's 25th anniversary and my 13th with them. |
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| | Find in a Library: Making music the Emerson String Quartet |
| | Find in a Library: Making music the Emerson String Quartet | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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