Allegri String Quartet: The Complete Argo recordings (13 CD)

Collected here in one edition are the complete Argo recordings of the Allegri String Quartet: 13 CDs with spined wallets and original jackets. 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 40-page book with new notes by Jeremy Hayes.

TRACK LIST

CD1–5
SCHUBERT: String Quartets Nos. 7–15, D.87*, D.94*, D.112*, D.173*, D.353, D.703* “Quartettsatz”, D.804* “Rosamunde”, D.810* “Der Tod und das Mädchen”, D.887

CD6
SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C, D.956* (with Moray Welsh, cello)

CD7
BEETHOVEN: String Quartets Op.74* “The Harp” & Op.95*

CD8
BRAHMS: String Quartet Nos. 1 & 2, Op.51*

CD9
BRAHMS: String Quintets Nos. 1* & 2* (with Patrick Ireland, viola)

CD10
BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet 
BAERMANN (misattrib. Wagner): Clarinet Quintet No.3, Op.23 – II. Adagio*
Jack Brymer, clarinet

CD11
BOCCHERINI: Quintets Nos 13-18, Op.55 Nos. 1–6
Sarah Francis, oboe

CD12
BRITTEN: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2*
RAVEL Introduction & Allegro M.46*
ROUSSEL Serenade Op.30, L.36*
Christopher Hyde-Smith, flute; Thea King, clarinet (Ravel); Marisa Robles, harp

CD13
FORBES: String Quartet No.1*
MACONCHY: String Quartet No.9*
JOHNSON: String Quartet No.2*
SCULTHORPE: String Quartet No.8*

ARTISTS
Allegri String Quartet
*FIRST RELEASE ON CD