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Artist: Paganini Quartet
Title Of Album: Beethoven: The Great String Quartets
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: United Archives
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue,log,scans)
Time: 5 CDs, 05:27:15 min
Full Size: 1,47 Gb (+1%rec.)

For the first time, this set gathers the Beethoven recordings released by the Paganini Quartet between 1947 and 1953. This studio archive is unique, a veritable missing-link between the Bush, Calvet, Lerner, Budapest Quartets and the post-war American ensemble, e.g. the Juilliard Quartet, in the prodigious history of the interpretation of this unmatched monument to chamber music. Why Paganini ? Because in 1946, Emil Herrmann, the well-known New York violin maker, told the cellist Robert Maas that he had in his possession a Stradivari quartet set, once having belonged to Paganini. After 25 years of research, the four instruments were finally re-united having been dispersed for over a century. Fascinated by this discovery, a wealthy music lover, Mrs William Andrews Clark immediately acquired the four instruments and the quartet naturally adopted the name of its prestigious parentage. Henri Temianka, lead violin, was allocated a 1727 violin, The Cozio Count of Salabue from the nobleman from whom Paganini had obtained it in 1816 and it had become one of his concert instruments. The second violin received a 1680 instrument, the Desaint , built in the typical manner of the Stradivari early years, influenced by Amati. The viola, the Mendelssohn , dated 1731, had prompted Paganini to commission Hector Berlioz s Harold in Italy . The cello, the Ladenburg , was made by Stradivari in 1736 when he was 93 years old and just before his death.

Tracklist
CD1
01-04 String Quartet No. 1 In F Major Op. 18 No. 1
05-08 String Quartet No. 2 In G Major Op. 18 No. 2
09-12 String Quartet No. 4 In C Minor Op. 18 No. 4

CD2
01-04 String Quartet No. 5 In A Major Op. 18 No. 5
05-08 String Quartet No. 7 In F Major Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Rasumovsky No. 1’

CD3
01-04 String Quartet No. 8 In E Minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Rasumovsky No. 2’
05-08 String Quartet No. 9 In C Major Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Rasumovsky No. 3’

CD4
01-04 String Quartet No. 10 In E Flat Major Op. 74 ‘Harp’
05-08 String Quartet No. 14 In C Sharp Minor Op. 131

CD5
01-04 String Quartet No. 15 In A Minor Op. 132
05-08 String Quartet No. 16 In F Major Op. 135

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