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. |
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
Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress LP [ Constellation Records / LP - 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 ] |