Beethoven: The Early Quartets; Budapest String Quartet <BR> BRIDGE 9342A/BThe release of this two disc set completes the Budapest String Quartet's historic Beethoven string quartet cycle, recorded at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium. Both the middle and late quartets from this cycle (BRIDGE 9099A C and BRIDGE 9072A C) have frequently been cited as among the finest recordings ever made of Beethoven's singular masterpieces. The present recordings of Beethoven's six Op. 18 quartets were selected from performances

and brilliant last movement

This CD presents four of Crumb’s compositions spanning the past two decades

Unto the Hills was released by Bridge on an earlier disc

Elégie in E-flat minor

Variety Polka

Wolfgang Holzmair

Robert Schumann: Fantasy in C major

Pavana Chromatica (Mrs

Pascal Rogé

” - Fanfare (David Deboor Canfield)

Paper Moon (Harold Arlen

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