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| Gramophone Gold Collection CDs (2008)
 $39.59  |
| Bartok Bartók: The 6 String Quartets / Takács Quartet CDs (1998)
$21.75  |
| Bartok Bartók: 6 String Quartets / Emerson String Quartet CDs (2007)
$15.45 |
| Bartok Bartók: String Quartets No 1-6 / Belcea Quartet CDs (2008)
SZ 91 classical music
$18.39
The Belcea's interpretation of these quartets really captures the listeners' attention, the quartet commented: "The more we immersed ourselves in these works, the more beauty and richness we discovered in them and we very much hope that this appeal will even still increase in future because we definitely consider these quartets to be the greatest masterpieces of the last century in our repertoire." The First Quartet is the most romantic in spirit and actually harbours a love story. The vibrant, young musical ambassadors of the Belcea Quartet have been playing all of Bartók's quartets extensively in the last few months and they will continue to feature heavily in their UK tour schedule in 2008. Whether viewed as a cycle or as six individual works, they remain masterpieces of formal design, every bar plainly part of a rounded grand plan, a plan securely placed within a wider framework. The Second (1915-1917) takes us some way towards the gritty, hard-hitting Bartók of the mid-late 1920s. It marks an affectionate withdrawal from a late Romantic fin-de-sičcle. Highlights include concert performances of the complete cycle at the Wigmore Hall and Edinburgh Festival. They communicate on various levels and are supremely effective on all of them. They can be mysterious, intimate, innovative, outspoken or earthy, while the infinite subtlety of their workings warrants a lifetime's study, and praise. Bartók's string quartets are a true cornerstone of quartet repertoire.
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| Bartok Bartók: 6 String Quartets / Emerson Quartet CDs (1990)
SZ 91 classical music
$21.75 |
| Haydn Project / Emerson String Quartet CDs (2001)
SZ 91 Work Catalog Number
$21.75
3cds-Emerson String Quartet
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| Bartok Bartók: Complete String Quartets / VÉGH String Quartet CDs (2005)
SZ 91 classical music
$24.55 |
| Emerson String Quartet Emerson Encores CD (2002)
SZ 91 Work Catalog Number
$14.35 |
| Bartok: The 6 String Quartets / Novak Quartet CDs (1994)
SZ 91 classical music
$11.85 |
| Hartmann, Bartok: String Quartets / Zehetmair Quartet CD (2001)
SZ 91 Work Catalog Number
$15.55 |
| Fine Arts Quartet Béla Bartók: The Six String Quartets CDs (2006) Boxed Set
SZ 91 classical music
$24.55 |
| Bartok Bartók: Complete String Quartets / Vermeer Quartet CDs (2005)
SZ 91 Work Catalog Number
$12.29 |
| B Bartok Bartók: Complete String Quartets CDs (2006)
$28.25 |
| Bartok 20th Century String Quartets / Rubin String Quartet CD (2006)
$7.25 |
| Bela Bartok Béla Bartók - A Portrait CDs (2007)
$13.45 |
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