Band
Emerson String Quartet
Albums
58
Members
5
Active
1976–2023
Origin
United States
Biography
The Emerson String Quartet is a New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously the Quartet was in residence at The Hartt School. Formed in 1976, they have released more than thirty albums and won nine Grammy Awards. Both violinists in the quartet were students of the noted violinist Oscar Shumsky. Formed in the bicentennial year of the United States, the Emerson String Quartet took its name from the great American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Violinists Drucker and Setzer alternate as first and second violinists.
Discography
The Great Romantic Quartets
Dvořák: String Quartet, op. 96 “American” / Smetana: String Quartet no. 1 “From My Life”
String Quartets
Die 6 Streichquartette
Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen / Beethoven: Quartetto serioso op. 95
Mozart: Jagd-Quartett, Dissonanzen-Quartet / Haydn: Kaiser-Quartett
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 / Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
Flute Quartets nos. 1-4
String Quartets K. 387 & 421
String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 / Sonata for 2 Violins
Haydn Quartets
Ives: String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 / Barber: String Quartet
Streichquintett C-Dur
American Contemporaries
Piano Quintet, op. 81 / Piano Quartet, op. 87
The Complete Songs
Dvořák: "American" Quartet; Tchaikovsky: Quartet #1; Borodin: Quartet #2
Dvořák: “American” Quartet / Tchaikovsky: Quartet no. 1 / Borodin: Quartet no. 2
Piano Quintet, op. 44 / Piano Quartet, op. 47
Piano Quintet Op. 44 / Piano Quartet Op. 47
Works for String Quartet / String Trio, op. 20
Key to the Quartets
The String Quartets
Meyer: Quintet / Rorem: String Quartet No. 4
Clarinet Quintets
String Quartets
The Haydn Project
The Emerson Encores
The Emerson Encores
The Art of Fugue
The Late String Quartets
The Late String Quartets / String Quintet
The Seven Last Words
String Quartets, K. 465, "Dissonance" / K. 458, "The Hunt" / K. 421
The Complete String Quartets
Intimate Voices
Intimate Voices
Piano Quintet / The String Quartets
Fugues
Intimate Letters
Old World - New World
The Prussian Quartets
Octet, op. 20 / String Quartet, op. 80
Journeys
Journeys
Berg: Lyric Suite / Wellesz: Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, op. 52
Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon
Chaconnes and Fantasias
The New York Concert
String Quartets
String Quartets nos. 1-3, op. 41
Dvořák
Infinite Voyage
Beethoven: Streichquartet, op. 135 / Schubert: Streichquartett, D. 887
»Jagd-Quartett« / »Dissonanzen-Quartett«
Mittlere Streichquartette = The Middle Quartets = Les Quartuors De La Période Médiane
String Quartets nos. 1-3, op. 41