ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET - Complete Argo Recordings [13CD]

Format: 13 x CD
Catalogue No.: 4853622
Barcode: 0028948536221
Release Date: 10 Mar 2023
Genre: Classical

• Collected here in one edition are the complete Argo recordings of the Allegri String Quartet
• 13 CDs with spined wallets, original jackets
• Highlights include not only great masterpieces of the quartet repertoire — the ageless works of Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms — but the 1969 Radcliffe Award-winning quartets of Forbes, Maconchy, Johnson and Sculthorpe
• The recordings are accompanied by a 40pp book (En/Fr/De) with new notes by Jeremy Hayes
• Two-piece capbox, 40pp booklet, 13 spined wallets, original jackets / Approx. dimensions: 128x128x46mm

TRACKLIST:
CD1–5 SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos. 7–15, D.87*, D.94*, D.112*, D.173*, D.353, D.703* “Quartettsatz”, D.804* “Rosamunde”, D.810* “Der Tod und das Mädchen”, D.887
CD6 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C, D.956* with Moray Welsh, cello
CD7 BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.10 in E flat, Op.74* “The Harp” • String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op.95*
CD8 BRAHMS String Quartet Nos. 1 & 2, Op.51*
CD9 BRAHMS String Quintet No.1 in F, Op.88* • String Quintet No.2 in G, Op.111* with Patrick Ireland, viola
CD10 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet Op.115
BAERMANN (misattrib. Wagner) Clarinet Quintet No.3, Op.23 – II. Adagio* with Jack Brymer, clarinet
CD11 BOCCHERINI Quintets Nos 13-18, Op.55 Nos. 1–6 with Sarah Francis, oboe
CD12 BRITTEN String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.25 • String Quartet No.2 in C, Op.36*
RAVEL Introduction & Allegro M.46*
ROUSSEL Serenade Op.30, L.36* with Christopher Hyde-Smith, flute; Thea King, clarinet (Ravel); Marisa Robles, harp
CD13 FORBES String Quartet No.1*
MACONCHY String Quartet No.9*
JOHNSON String Quartet No.2*
SCULTHORPE String Quartet No.8*

(*First CD release)