The Emerson String Quartet has consolidated its position as one of the lead… Read Full Bio ↴The Emerson String Quartet has consolidated its position as one of the leading American chamber groups since being chosen in the early 1980s by Deutsche Grammophon to record the string quartet literature for the new CD medium. The quartet was named after the transcendentalist philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson and was among the first whose violinists shared leadership duties. Founder members Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer alternate as first and second violinists; they and long-serving violist Lawrence Dutton were joined in 2013 by Welsh cellist Paul Watkins when his predecessor, David Finckel, left to embark upon a solo career. The Emerson String Quartet has recorded the complete quartets of Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók, Webern, and Shostakovich and the major works of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Dvořák, winning a string of awards. The four players used overdubbing to mimic the eight musicians required for the Octet on the acclaimed 2005 set of the Mendelssohn quartets. In 2018 DG issued a 52-disc collection of the quartet’s complete recordings for the label, and in 2020 the group made its debut on Pentatone with a disc of the three quartets of Schumann. In 2021 the Emerson String Quartet announced that it would give its final concert in October 2023
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01J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In C Major, BWV 8461:43Emerson String Quartet
02J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In D Major, BWV 8501:42Emerson String Quartet
03J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - 12. Fugue In F Minor, BWV 8574:07Emerson String Quartet
04J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In F Sharp Minor, BWV 8592:52Emerson String Quartet
05J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In G Minor, BWV 8611:25Emerson String Quartet
06J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In A Flat Major, BWV 8621:31Emerson String Quartet
07J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In G Sharp Minor, BWV 8632:20Emerson String Quartet
08J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In A Minor, BWV 8653:56Emerson String Quartet
09J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In B Major, BWV 8681:37Emerson String Quartet
10J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In B Minor, BWV 8696:22Emerson String Quartet
11J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Fugue In C Minor, BWV 8711:29Emerson String Quartet
12J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Fugue In D Major, BWV 8741:43Emerson String Quartet
13J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Fugue In E Flat Major, BWV 8761:47Emerson String Quartet
14J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Fugue In D Sharp Minor, BWV 8771:55Emerson String Quartet
15J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Fugue In E Major, BWV 8783:02Emerson String Quartet
16J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Fugue In G Minor, BWV 8852:32Emerson String Quartet
17J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - 17. Fugue In A Flat Major, BWV 886 "(Transcr. in B-Flat and arr. by Emanuel Aloys Förster)"2:15Emerson String Quartet
18J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Fugue In B Flat Minor, BWV 8913:20Emerson String Quartet
19J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Fugue In B Major, BWV 8923:09Emerson String Quartet
20J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In C Sharp Minor, BWV 8494:29Emerson String Quartet & Da-Hong Seetoo
21J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Fugue In B Flat Minor, BWV 867Da-Hong Seetoo & Emerson String Quartet
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