V.V.(3) schoenberg quartet recordings?

[Michael Perez]

Kai wrote
"David Kassay schrieb:

"'Can anyone recommend a recording of the complete Schoenberg quartets
refered to in this section?'

  "a good recording, which also contains string quartets of webern and
berg, is the 4 cd box called 'second viennese school.' it was recorded
in 1971 by the lasalle quartet & brought out by deutsche
grammophon/hamburg. the catalogue number is 419994-2 [g/cm 4]."

I have the same collection and it is quite nice.  Great notes - 340
pages worth (in German and English), with sketches and citations from
letters.  In addition to the four quartets with opus numbers, the
package also includes a recording of Schönberg's 1897 quartet in D
Major, written during his few months of counterpoint study with
Alexander von Zemlinsky, who looked over and corrected the score.  For
anyone interested in the Webern string works, there is a more recent
and, I believe, better recording available by the Emerson String
Quartet, also on DG (445 828-2).

Michael



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