Allegri String Quartet - The Complete Argo Recordings (13CDs Box Set)

Collected over 13 CDs are the complete Argo recordings of the Allegri String Quartet. 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.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Heinrich Josef Baermann (1784-1847), Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Albert Roussel (1869-1937), Sebastian Forbes (geb. 1941), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014), Robert Sherlaw Johnson (1932-2000)

Franz Schubert: Streichquartette Nr. 7-15; Streichquintett C-Dur D. 969

+Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartette Nr. 10 & 11

+Johannes Brahms: Streichquartette Nr. 1 & 2; Streichquintette Nr. 1 & 2; Klarinettenquintett op. 115

+Heinrich Josef Baermann: Klarinettenquintett Nr. 3 op. 23 (Adagio)

+Luigi Boccherini: Oboenquintette Nr. 13-18 (op. 55 Nr. 1-6)

+Benjamin Britten: Streichquartette Nr. 1 & 2

+Maurice Ravel: Introduction & Allegro

+Albert Roussel: Serenade op. 30

+Sebastian Forbes: Streichquartett Nr. 1

+Elizabeth Maconchy: Streichquartett Nr. 9

+Robert Sherlaw Johnson: Streichquartett Nr. 2

+Peter Sculthorpe: Streichquartett Nr. 8