Léner Quartet

The Léner Quartet playing Brahms's String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, No. 2 in A minor, No. 3 in B flat major, and the Clarinet Quintet in B minor, with Charles Draper on clarinet. Recorded in London, 1928-1933. [click here and here to download]

Quatuor Krettly

The Quatuor Krettly playing works for string quartet by Darius Milhaud (String Quartet No. 2), Arthur Honnegger (String Quartet No. 1), and Igor Stravinsky (Three Pieces for String Quartet). Recorded in 1928-1929. [click here to download]

Beethoven and the Capet Quartet

The Capet Quartet playing Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp minor, Op. 131 and String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. Recorded in 1927-28. [click here to download]

Schubert and the Busch Quartet

The Busch Quartet playing Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, 'Death and the Maiden,' D 810, and the String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D 887. Recorded in 1937 and 1940 respectively. [click here to download]

Debussy, Ravel and the Capet Quartet

The Capet Quartet playing Debussy's (1862-1918) String Quartet in G minor, Op.10 (1893) and Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) String Quartet in F major (1903). Recorded in 1927-28 for Columbia Records. The inclusion of the photograph above is somewhat dubious, as the players featured on the recording were in a later configuration of the quartet. Cellist Marcel Casadesus had died fighting in WWI.
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Vogel als Prophet

Five interpretations of Vogel als Prophet from Robert Schumann's (1810-1856) Waldszenen, Op. 82. (1848-49).

Alfred Cortot, 1948

Clara Haskil, 1954

Sviatoslav Richter, 1957

Wilhelm Kempff, 1972

Claudio Arrau, 1972

Beethoven and Wilhelm Kempff

Kempff playing four of Beethoven's late Piano Sonatas, No. 25 in G major op. 79 (1809), No. 26 in E flat major op. 81 "Les Adieux" (1809-10), No. 27 in E minor op. 90 (1814). Kempff recorded three complete cycles of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas in three eras of recording technology: on shellac between 1926 and 1945, on both shellac and mono LPs between 1951-1956, and in stereo in the '60s. These mono recordings were made in 1951. [click here to download]