Busch String Quartet plays Mozart, Haydn and Dvorak

The Busch Quartet playing Mozart's String Quartet (K. 428), Schumann's Piano Quintet (Op. 44), and Dvorak's String Quartet (Op. 51), all in E flat. Rudolf Serkin joins for the Schumann quintet. Recorded in 1941-42. [click here to download]

Barylli Quartet and Beethoven

The Barylli Quartet playing Beethoven's String Quartet No. 10 in E Flat Major, the "Harp," Op. 74 and String Quartet No. 12 in E Flat Major, Op. 127. Recorded in 1956 in Vienna. [click here to download]

Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet and Brahms

The Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet playing Brahms's (1833-1897) String Quintet No. 1 in F major Op. 88 with Ferdinand Stangler on second viola and the String Sextet No. 2 in G major Op. 36 with Wilhelm Hübner on second viola and Günther Weiss on second cello. Recorded in 1950 and 1954, in Vienna. [click here to download]

Capet Quartet, Mozart and Beethoven

The Capet Quartet playing Mozart's String Quartet in C Major, K. 465, "Dissonance," and Beethoven's String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59-1 "Razumovsky." Recorded in 1928. [click here to download]

Capet Quartet, Schumann and Franck

The Capet Quartet playing Robert Schumann's String Quartet No. 1 and César Franck's Piano Quintet in F Minor with Marcel Ciampi at the keyboard. Recorded in October 1928. [click here to download]
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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]

Schubert and Artur Schnabel

Artur Schnabel (1882-1951) playing both sets of Schubert's Impromptus D. 899, Op. 90 and D. 935, Op. 142 and the Allegretto D. 915 in C minor. [click here to download]

Beethoven and the Flonzaley Quartet

The Flonzaley Quartet playing Beethoven's String Quartet in E-Flat (Op.127), and in F (Op. 135). Recorded in 1926. [click here to download]

The Hollywood String Quartet

The Hollywood String Quartet playing Schoenberg's (1874-1951) Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for string sextet (1899) and Schubert's (1797-1828) String Quintet in C major, D. 956 (1828). The ensemble was augmented by an extra viola and cello for the Schoenberg, and an extra cello for the Schubert. Recorded in 1950-1951, Hollywood, CA. [click here to download]

Franz Schubert and Andreas Staier

Andreas Staier playing Schubert's Sonata in A minor op. 42 D 845 (1825) and Klavierstücke op. ph. D946 (1828) on a contemporary Viennese fortepiano made by Johann Fritz ca. 1825.
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Mozart, Beethoven and Clara Haskil

Haskil playing Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 19 in F major (Mozart's cadenzas), K.459 and Beethoven's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C minor, op. 37, with Henry Swoboda conducting the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra. Recorded in 1950. [click here to download]

Mozart and Clara Haskil

My love Clara Haskil playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 with Henry Swoboda conducting the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra. Also included are 11 Scarlatti sonatas played and recorded in 1950 [click here to download].

Beethoven and Mitsuko Uchida

Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 30 in E major, Op. 109, no. 31 in A Flat major, and no. 32 in C minor, written in 1821-1822, and played by the great Mitsuko Uchida [click here to download].

Vladimir Horowitz

Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989) performing a selection of Chopin Etudes and Mazurkas, and a scherzo, with Liszt's Funerailles No. 7, and the Sonata in B minor, recorded 1932-36 at Abbey Road Studios, London [click here to download].