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As a student in the mid-1970s I became acquainted with Bartók’s string quartets through three recorded cycles. First I got to know the gaunt profile

Dvorák’s 14 string quartets stand as the finest and most imposing works in the medium after Beethoven (and until Shostakovich), though the early works certainly

This 1975 recording of Schubert’s C major String Quintet finds the Guarneri Quartet and cellist Leonard Rose in fine form. Admittedly, first violinist Arnold Steinhardt’s

The Guarneri Quartet’s solid and stable renditions should certainly satisfy those who prefer their Beethoven straight, no chaser. There’s little that’s extroverted and certainly nothing
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