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Emerson String Quartet:

Music of Britten and Purcell Chaconnes & Fantasias

The Emerson String Quartet celebrates its 40th season this year and presents a new recording, Chaconnes and Fantasias: Music of Britten and Purcell, which will be the first release on Universal Music Classics' new US classical record label, Decca Gold, on April 21. Their US tour takes them from California to New York to Virginia this spring and summer, and on April 26 they will perform works from the new album and their extensive repertoire in celebration of the 40th anniversary at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR.

Emerson String Quartet:

Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

"With musicians like this there must be some hope for humanity." - The Times

With 9 Grammy Awards and 3 Gramophone Awards, the Emerson String Quartet bestrides the world of chamber music like a colossus.   Its polished and authoritative performances, its comprehensive and mighty discography, its fearless embrace of the new and unusual as well as the classics - all have placed this string quartet high in the pantheon of chamber music. DG's tremendous new release documents the quartet's exceptional longevity and dynamism in all its magnificence: Founded in 1976, they are still as youthfully active and inquisitive as ever and this video proves it.

Note that the Emersons are willing to give interviews and actively promote this set – let me know if you would like to arrange interviews. 

"Four decades ago, when Philip Setzer and I began to build a quartet career with two friends from the Juilliard School, we could not have imagined the scope of the journey on which we were embarking..." Eugene Drucker

This monumental release documents the Emerson String Quartet's exceptional longevity and dynamism – founded in 1976, they are still as youthfully active and inquisitive as ever 40 years later.    Moreover it charts the New York-based ensemble's musical breadth, encompassing virtually all of the important repertoire for their formation.  

This 52 CD collection includes their complete output on DG and features highlights such as the 9 GRAMMY AWARDS, 3 Gramophone Magazine Awards; complete cycles by Shostakovich, Beethoven and Bartók; plus String Quartets by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Schubert and many more. Also included is a Bonus CD with Encores and  Audio Guides.

Emerson String Quartet:

Journeys

Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of the label's second recording by the Emerson String Quartet, winner of nine Grammy® Awards and three Gramophone Awards.  Journeys - available now from Sony Classical - consists of two string sextets from the 1890s, Souvenir de Florence by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) by Arnold Schoenberg. The Quartet is joined by two frequent collaborators, both acclaimed soloists and chamber musicians, American violist Paul Neubauer and British cellist Colin Carr. 

Emerson String Quartet:

Mozart: The Prussian Quartets

The Emerson String Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets as musicians of unrivaled eminence with an incomparable list of great recordings over three decades. For its debut on Sony Classical, the Quartet has selected Mozart's last three string quartets, the "Prussian" quartets K. 575, K. 589 and K. 590. Available on Tuesday, October 18, the recording will coincide with a series of international concerts featuring the program of the CD.