Dvořák — The Complete String Quartets (Prague String Quartet), Deutsche Grammophon (9 CD)

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Audio CD box set (9 discs)
• Brand / Label: Deutsche Grammophon (Collectors Edition)
• Composer: Antonín Dvořák
• Performers: Prager Streichquartett (Prague String Quartet)
• Catalogue No.: 463 165-2
• UPC: 028946316528
• Genre: Classical / Chamber music

Product Features

• Format: 9 × CD (Stereo)
• Recordings: 1974–1977
• Printed and made in Germany
• Condition: Brand new, factory sealed

Overview

This Deutsche Grammophon Collectors Edition gathers all of Dvořák's string quartets — the complete cycle, fourteen numbered quartets plus additional movements and the song-cycle arrangement "Cypresses" — performed by the Prague String Quartet across nine discs. It's the kind of comprehensive set that turns a famous composer's best-known form into a full, explorable world.

Everyone knows the "American" Quartet (No. 12), and it's here at its best, but the real value is the journey around it: the early quartets, the great mature works of the 1870s and 80s, the lyrical "Cypresses." The Prague players bring an idiomatic warmth that suits this music perfectly.

For chamber-music lovers and Dvořák collectors, it's a definitive, well-priced library of the complete quartets.

Interesting Facts

• The set contains all fourteen of Dvořák's numbered string quartets plus additional movements and "Cypresses."
• The most famous work, Quartet No. 12 "American," was written during Dvořák's stay in the United States.
• The Prague String Quartet (Prager Streichquartett) recorded the cycle for DG between 1974 and 1977.
• "Cypresses," B. 152, is Dvořák's own arrangement of songs for string quartet.
• It is part of DG's Collectors Edition line, designed to offer essential repertoire at exceptional value.

Track Listing

• CD1: No. 1 in A, Op. 2; Quartet Movement in A minor
• CD2: No. 2 in B-flat, B. 17; 2 Waltzes, Op. 54; Fragment in F, B. 120
• CD3: No. 3 in D, B. 18
• CD4: No. 4 in E minor, B. 19; No. 5 in F minor, Op. 9
• CD5: No. 6 in A minor, Op. 12; No. 7 in A minor, Op. 16
• CD6: No. 8 in E, Op. 80; No. 9 in D minor, Op. 34
• CD7: No. 10 in E-flat, Op. 51; No. 11 in C, Op. 61
• CD8: No. 12 in F "American," Op. 96; No. 13 in G, Op. 106
• CD9: No. 14 in A-flat, Op. 105; Cypresses, B. 152

Publishers

Released by Deutsche Grammophon (Collectors Edition, catalogue 463 165-2). Recordings 1974–1977. Made in Germany.

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