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The Alban Berg Quartet was founded in 1971 and within ten years was established among the finest string quartets in the world. It had been known because of its huge recorded models of the entire quartets of several masters from the genre. Its founding people were all section of a …

The Belcea Quartet is a youthful group from London, founded in the Royal University of Music in 1997. Its users are Corina Belcea 1st violin, Axel Schacher second violin, Kryzsztof Chorzelski viola, and Antoine Lederlin cello. After training for nearly 3 years using the Chilingirian Quartet, the Amadeus Quartet, and …

Founded in 1994, the Zehetmair Quartett quickly obtained international prominence and critical acclaim because of its energetic, imaginative, and meticulously wrought performances from the string quartet repertoire. Contacting the group “refreshingly iconoclastic,” critic Harris Goldsmith from the American Record Instruction especially praised the interpretation of Robert Schumann’s String Quartet, Op. …

The Leipziger Streichquartett, or Leipzig String Quartet, has emerged among the foremost string quartets of its time. With a wide repertory which includes the entire outputs of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, aswell as individual functions by Dvorák, Bruckner, Ives, Schoenberg, Cage, and many more (about 300 functions by …

Although Quatuor Ysaÿe had in short order developed a good reputation because of its collective technical skills and incisive interpretations, it had been not before new century, nearly 2 decades following its formation, that talented Paris-based string quartet achieved wide acclaim. The majority of its recordings had been released after …