MP3 St. Petersburg String Quartet - Complete String Quartets

One of the world's leading string quartet.Grammy nomination, "Best Record" honors in both Stereo Review and Gramophone Magazines, and the Chamber Music America/WQXR Prize for Best CD of 2001.

8 MP3 Songs in this album (59:46) !
Related styles: CLASSICAL: Tchaikovsky, CLASSICAL: String Quartet

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One of the world's leading string quartet, the St. Petersburg String Quartet was founded in 1985 The members isAlla Aranovskaya, Alla Krolevich,Boris Vyner and Leonid Shukayev, all graduates of the Leningrad Conservatory. The Quartet blazed a trail through international chamber music competitions, winning First Prize at the All-Soviet Union String Quartet Competition, the Silver Medal and a Special Prize at the Tokyo International Competition of Chamber Ensembles, First Prize and both Special Prizes at the Vittorio Gui International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Florence, Italy, and First Prize and the "Grand Prix Musica Viva" at the International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Melbourne, Australia.

The Quartet has continued its ascendancy, building a reputation of worldwide proportions including a Grammy nomination, "Best Record" honors in both Stereo Review and Gramophone Magazines, and the Chamber Music America/WQXR Prize for Best CD of 2001.
The Quartet held the respected position of Quartet-in-Residence at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1999 to 2003.

In 2008 St. Petersburg Quartet will play in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

Audiences from Toronto to Tokyo, from Lithuania to London and in music halls across the United States give the St. Petersburg Quartet standing ovations. No classical CD collection is complete without recordings by the acclaimed group. This season the Quartet released new CDs of Ravel and Debussy quartets as well as Tchaikovsky complete chamber music works.