Guarneri Quartet - The Hungarian Album / Zoltan Kodaly & Erno Dohnanyi / Sony Music Audio CD 2009 / 88697158382

UPC 886971583823

The Guarneri Quartet was an American string quartet founded in 1964 at the Marlboro Music School and Festival. It was admired for its rich, warm, complex tone and its bold, dramatic interpretations of the quartet literature, with a particular affinity for the works of Beethoven and Bartók. Through teaching at Harpur College (which became Binghamton University), University of Maryland, Curtis Institute of Music, and at Marlboro, the Guarneri players helped nurture interest in quartet playing for a generation of young musicians. The group's extensive touring and recording activities, coupled with its outreach efforts to engage audiences, contributed to the rapid growth in the popularity of chamber music during the 1970s and 1980s. The quartet is notable for its longevity: the group performed for 45 years with only one personnel change, when cellist David Soyer retired in 2001 and was replaced by his student Peter Wiley. The Guarneri Quartet disbanded in 2009.

Tracklist:

Erno Dohnanyi - String Quartet No. 2 In D-Flat Major Op. 15

Zoltan Kodaly - String Quartet No. 2 Op. 10

Erno Dohnanyi - String Quartet No. 3 In A Minor, Op. 33