Sony Classical has released eight classic Guarneri Quartet albums (as mp3 downloads on both iTunes and Amazon.com) to honor the quartet’s farewell season, which concludes in June 2009. Some of these have not been available (except on used LP) for years, and are a welcome addition to any chamber music aficionado’s collection.
Brahms: String Quartets and Quintets (w/ Pinchas Zukerman, viola)
Mendelssohn & Schumann Quartets
Dvorak Quartets and Terzetto
Schubert: Last Four Quartets
Mozart: Three Late Quartets
Italian Album: Verdi, Wolf & Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence
Mozart, Beethoven & Dvorak
Bartók: The Six Quartets