Quatuor Artemis

Quatuor Artemis – Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:21 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics

The Artemis Quartet pairs Brahms’ intense First Quartet with his lighter-spirited Third Quartet, both works that the Artemis’ cellist, Eckart Runge, describes as “remarkable and multi-faceted”. He says that “Brahms marries a Romantic spirit with the structure and forms of Classicism. There is an almost symphonic approach in the writing, but at the same time the quartets are imbued with a sense of warmth, immediacy, friendship and love that is interwoven with a more spiritual, timeless beauty”.
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Quatuor Artemis – Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos 5, 7 & Piano Quintet (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:29 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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The origins of this album – the Artemis Quartet’s first recordings of Shostakovich – lie in the ensemble’s long-established relationship with the great pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja. For years, the quartet had been wanting to record the Russian composer’s Piano Quintet with her.

It is coupled with Quartets No 5 and No 7, multi-faceted works which are expressive of the composer’s private persona.

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