Juilliard String Quartet

Juilliard String Quartet – Schumann: String Quartet No. 4 – Dahl: Concerto for Clarinet, Violin & Cello “Concerto a Tre” (1953)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:09 minutes | 978 MB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical releases Juilliard String Quartet – The Early Columbia Recordings: Sony Classical is excited to present a newly remastered selection in 24bit of the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia’s studio on Manhattan’s 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to listeners. The albums are mastered from the original tapes in sampling rate 96kHz and 192kHz.
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Juilliard String Quartet – Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 4 – Webern: 5 Movements for String Quartet – Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3 (Remastered) (1953)
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Sony Classical releases Juilliard String Quartet – The Early Columbia Recordings: Sony Classical is excited to present a newly remastered selection in 24bit of the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia’s studio on Manhattan’s 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to listeners. The albums are mastered from the original tapes in sampling rate 96kHz and 192kHz.
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Juilliard String Quartet – Mennin: String Quartet No. 2 – Imbrie: String Quartet in B-Flat Major (Remastered) (1954)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:31 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical releases Juilliard String Quartet – The Early Columbia Recordings: Sony Classical is excited to present a newly remastered selection in 24bit of the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia’s studio on Manhattan’s 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to listeners. The albums are mastered from the original tapes in sampling rate 96kHz and 192kHz.
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Juilliard String Quartet – Copland: Sextet for String Quartet, Clarinet and Piano – Kohs: Chamber Concerto (Remastered) (1953)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:30 minutes | 736 MB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical releases Juilliard String Quartet – The Early Columbia Recordings: Sony Classical is excited to present a newly remastered selection in 24bit of the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia’s studio on Manhattan’s 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to listeners. The albums are mastered from the original tapes in sampling rate 96kHz and 192kHz.
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Juilliard String Quartet – Virgil Thomson: Quartet No. 2 – William Schuman: Voyage (Remastered) (1955)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:21 minutes | 826 MB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical releases Juilliard String Quartet – The Early Columbia Recordings: Sony Classical is excited to present a newly remastered selection in 24bit of the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia’s studio on Manhattan’s 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to listeners. The albums are mastered from the original tapes in sampling rate 96kHz and 192kHz.
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Juilliard String Quartet – Berg: Lyric Suite – Ravel: String Quartet in F Major (Remastered) (1950)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:55 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical releases Juilliard String Quartet – The Early Columbia Recordings: Sony Classical is excited to present a newly remastered selection in 24bit of the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia’s studio on Manhattan’s 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to listeners. The albums are mastered from the original tapes in sampling rate 96kHz and 192kHz.
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Juilliard String Quartet – Kirchner: Sting Quartet No. 1 – Fine: String Quartet (1952) (Remastered) (1954)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:56 minutes | 811 MB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical releases Juilliard String Quartet – The Early Columbia Recordings: Sony Classical is excited to present a newly remastered selection in 24bit of the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia’s studio on Manhattan’s 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to listeners. The albums are mastered from the original tapes in sampling rate 96kHz and 192kHz.
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Juilliard String Quartet – The Beethoven Quartets 1964 – 1970 (Remastered) (2020)
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It was in 1964 a few years after an early foray into Beethoven with four of the works for RCA Victors Red Seal label that the Juilliard String Quartet embarked on this complete set. They started out with the three Razumovsky and Harp quartets, which Columbia released the next year on its subsidiary Epic label. The six Early Quartets, op. 18, followed in 196869; the Late Quartets in 196970, along with op. 95 to complete the set of Middle Quartets. By now all the Juilliard recordings were appearing on Columbia Masterworks, including their Beethoven in three separate volumes. In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethovens birth, Sony Classical is pleased to present the Juilliards complete cycle for the first time in a single box, newly remastered on nine albums. In a 1970 survey of available recordings of the Middle Quartets, High Fidelity, the leading US record journal, pinpointed the ensembles special qualities: The Juilliard plays with a sense of precision and rhythmic thrust unmatched by any other quartet currently active I find their playing highly expressive, but this expressivity is the result of clear articulation of formal structure rather than mere surface nuance.

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Juilliard String Quartet – Beethoven: The Middle Quartets, Op. 59 Nos. 1 – 3; Op. 74 & Op. 95 (Remastered) (1976/2020)
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It was in 1964 – a few years after an early foray into Beethoven with four of the works for RCA Victor’s Red Seal label – that the Juilliard String Quartet embarked on this complete set. They started out with the three “Razumovsky” and “Harp” quartets, which Columbia released the next year on its subsidiary Epic label. The six “Early Quartets”, op. 18, followed in 1968–69; the “Late Quartets” in 1969–70, along with op. 95 to complete the set of “Middle Quartets”. By now all the Juilliard recordings were appearing on Columbia Masterworks, including their Beethoven in three separate volumes. ….

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Juilliard String Quartet – Beethoven: The Late Quartets, Opp. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133 (Grosse Fuge) & 135 (Remastered) (1974/2020)
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With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946, the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring. Each performance of the Juilliard String Quartet is a unique experience, bringing together the four members’ profound understanding, total commitment, and unceasing curiosity in sharing the wonders of the string quartet literature.

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Juilliard String Quartet – Beethoven: The Early Quartets, Op. 18, Nos. 1 – 6 (Remastered) (1972/2020)
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The Juilliard String Quartet. For over seventy years they have been a household name in several different formations. They are connected to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York.

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Juilliard String Quartet – Beethoven: String Quartet Nos. 8 & 2 (1959/2019)
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America’s greatest and most enduring chamber ensemble – the Grammyâ Award-winning Juilliard String Quartet – celebrates its eighth decade with the release of a new Sony Classical recording of music from three centuries by Ludwig van Beethoven, Béla Bartók and Argentinian-American composer Mario Davidovsky.

This is the set of Beethoven Quartet recordings the Juilliard Quartet made in the 60s. The quartet’s line-up a the time was Robert Mann and Earl Carlyss, violins; Raphael Hillyer, viola; Claus Adam, cello. (Exceptions: Isidore Cohen was still second violin for the recordings of the Op. 59 quartets and Op. 74; Samuel Rhodes had replaced Hilyer at viola by the time some of the late quartets were recorded.)

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Juilliard String Quartet – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 (1964/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:25 minutes | 908 MB | Genre: Classical
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America’s greatest and most enduring chamber ensemble – the Grammyâ Award-winning Juilliard String Quartet – celebrates its eighth decade with the release of a new Sony Classical recording of music from three centuries by Ludwig van Beethoven, Béla Bartók and Argentinian-American composer Mario Davidovsky.

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Juilliard String Quartet – Beethoven – Davidovsky – Bartók (2018)
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With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet continues to inspire audiences around the world with its performances. Founded in 1946, and widely known as “the quintessential American string quartet,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement with the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works— a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring. Each performance of the Juilliard String Quartet is a unique experience, bringing together the four members’ profound understanding, total commitment, and unceasing curiosity in sharing the wonders of the string quartet literature.

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Juilliard String Quartet – Beethoven – Bartók – Dvorák: String Quartets (2021)
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The Juilliard String Quartet was heard only sparsely on recordings in the 2010s as the group went through personnel changes that to traditionalists might have threatened to sink the venerable group. They can rest easy, however, for in this 2021 recording, on a renewed contract with Sony Classical and what is billed as a 75th-anniversary album, the new lineup offers a program of Beethoven, Bartók, and Dvořák that is traditional as can be, and a sound that respects the virtues of the group as it existed in its heyday. Those virtues include soberness, clarity, and carefully wrought balances, all on display in the Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2. Here, the Juilliard avoids the overwrought performances that have become, if not the norm, at least increasingly accepted and brings a wonderful transparency to the “Thème russe” middle section of the Scherzo, with its dense contrapuntal overlay. The Bartók String Quartet No. 3 likewise emphasizes the work’s classical roots rather than its desolate modern stretches, which are there but can speak for themselves. The new Juilliard’s style is not a clone of that of the classic group; new first violinist Areta Zhulla is capable of a great variety of sounds and brings them to bear in a fresh, exciting performance of the Dvořák String Quartet in F major, Op. 96 (“American”), where the group introduces flexible tempos that bring out the folk rhythms in the work, whether they be American or Czech. This is a release that seems to ensure another generation of fine Juilliard music-making.

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