Chamber, Quartets, String Quartets, Berg (composer)
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Infinite Voyage
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Emerson String Quartet
Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Chamber
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assurance and engagement are fully evident here, and it's not just in the response to the variety of tone and timbre asked for, but in the care over intonation - always a potential problem in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Berg: Violin Concerto & Lyric Suite
RecommendedLouis Krasner, Galimir String Quartet
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Anton Webern
The strong emotions that soloist and conductor doubtless felt within six months of the composer's death ensure that there is more than enough raw and authentic feeling to counter any purely... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection
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Building a Library, October 2004, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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This is an outstanding performance of Berg's Lyric Suite. —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Chamber
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Special offer. Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Quatuor Diotima
The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Their reading of Webern's Five Pieces here bears comparison with the finest on record...Throughout, the performance left me admiring anew the originality and concentration of Webern's score. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The Alban Berg Quartet - The Teldec Recordings (1971-79)
RecommendedThe Alban Berg Quartet
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Building a Library, January 2009, First Choice
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Berg: Violin Concerto & Lulu Suite
Franz Peter Zimmermann (violin), Arleen Augér (soprano), Peter Donohoe (piano), Sine Bundgaard (soprano)
Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Alban Berg Quartet, Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Sir Simon Rattle, Ingo...
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A trio of characterful and accomplished 20th-century string quartets make a satisfyingly substantial programme of a kind now rare on the contemporary recording scene...the Signum Quartet respond... —
