BENJAMIN BRITTEN
String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 Emperor String Quartet [ BIS / CD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] On this second disc of the Emperor Quartet's survey of Britten's music for string quartet, Alla marcia appears as an interlude between the first and the last of Britten's three published string quartets. |
WALTON
The String Quartets The Emperor Quartet [ Black Box / CD - released 21/Jul/2001 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2002 - Chamber |
Emperor String Quartet
Martinu: String Quartets 3/4/5 [ Bis / CD - released 2/Aug/2004 ] |
SALLY BEAMISH / BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Emperor String Quartet [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "I first came across the Emperor Quartet a few years ago when they released their excellent recording of the William Walton Quartet on Black Box. At the time I was struck by the powerful commitment of their playing, a feature clearly brought to bear... |
MARTINU
Strings Quartets Nos 3, 4 & 5 Emperor String Quartet [ BIS / CD - released 13/Jul/2004 ] "Powerful and eloquent performances ... an opportunity to explore the Emperor's abrasively vertical response" (CD of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2004) |
JAMES MacMILLAN
String Quartets Emperor String Quartet / Robert Plane (clarinet) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2002 ] showing MacMillan's development as a composer of chamber music |
Emperor String Quartet/Plane
Macmillan: String Quartets 1-2 [ Bis / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Allelujah! Dont Bend! Ascend! [ Constellation Records / CD - released 19/Oct/2012 ] The first new recordings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor in a decade. Featuring two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music and two six-and-a-half minute drones, 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND! provides soaring, shining proof of the band's... |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress [ Constellation Records / CD - released 3/Apr/2015 ] Godspeed You! Black Emperor (GYBE) returns with its first single LP-length release since the group's earliest days in 1997-99. 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' clocks in at a succinct 40:23 and is arguably the most focused and best-sounding... |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
F# A# (Infinity) [ Kranky Records / CD - released 20/May/1999 ] |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Luciferian Towers [ Constellation Records CD / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Luciferian Towers was recorded during the winter of 2016/2017 at Montreal's Hotel2Tango, with Greg Norman once again engineering and co-producing (as he did on the band's previous album 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress'). The music on... |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Yanqui U.X.O. [ Constellation Records / CD - released 19/Nov/2002 ] Despite being an instrumental band, Montreal-based Godspeed You! Black Emperor have managed to become one of the most overtly political voices in indie rock. Their clever and obtuse packaging has always done their work for them, but in the past,... |
The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Brendan Fraser & Jet Li [ Universal Pictures DVD / DVD - released 8/Jan/2009 ] Rick O'Connell and his wife, Evelyn (Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello), are back, having come out of retirement to race to the aid of their adult son Alex (Luke Ford), who has inadvertently awakened the mummy of the Dragon Emperor (Jet Li). (Roger Ebert) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Music for String Quartet Emperor Quartet [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] Between 2010 and 2014, the British Emperor Quartet released the three discs gathered here, with all of Benjamin Britten's published music for string quartet - as well as his one work for string quintet, the Phantasy in F minor. |
BRITTEN
String Quartets / Three Divertimenti / Miniature Suite Emperor Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Benjamin Britten always enjoyed performing with small ensembles - he played the viola as well as the piano - and his natural facility in writing for strings was evident from a very early age. |
BRITTEN
Simple Symphony / String Quartet in F / Rhapsody for String Quartet / etc The Emperor Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2014 ] the quartet have gathered five works from the composer's earliest period, from the String Quartet in F, by a fourteen-year old schoolboy, to Simple Sym"The Emperor hony, composed six years later and the work which may be regarded as his breakthrough. |
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Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk (Vinyl) [ Back On Black / 2 LP ] |
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Emperial Live Ceremony [ Back on Black / 2 LP - released 21/Sep/2012 ] |
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Emperor/Wrath Of The Tyrants (Vinyl) [ Back On Black / 2 LP - released 13/Sep/2010 ] |
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In The Nightside Eclipse (Vinyl) [ Back On Black / 2 LP - released 13/Sep/2010 ] |