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Fine Arts Quartet
Formed in 1946
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The Fine Arts Quartet is a chamber music ensemble founded in Chicago, United States in 1946 by Leonard Sorkin and George Sopkin. The Quartet has recorded over 200 works and has toured internationally for nearly 80 years, making it one of the longest enduring major string quartets.
In its history, the Quartet has had two leaders: Leonard Sorkin, from 1946 to 1981, and Ralph Evans, from 1982 to the present. Its current members are violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico (who have been playing together in the Quartet since 1983), violist Gil Sharon, and cellist Niklas Schmidt.
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Le Fine Arts Quartet est un quatuor à cordes américain fondé en 1946. De 1946 à 1954, il dépend de l'American Broadcasting Company de Chicago. Il fait partie des meilleurs quatuors américains avec le quatuor Juilliard, le quatuor Guarneri, le quatuor de Cleveland, le quatuor de Tokyo et le quatuor Vermeer, avec un répertoire essentiellement concentré sur la période classique et romantique et une immense discographie.
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Discography
Albums
- 1972 Babbitt: Quartet no. 3 / Wuorinen: String Quartet
- 1990 String Quartets nos. 2 and 3 / Evocations de Slovaquie
- 1995 Flute Quartets
- 1996 Early String Quartets op. 18
- 2005 Viola Quintets
- 2006 String Quartets Nos. 1 - 3
- 2008 String Quintet / Intermezzo / String Quartet / Rondo
- 2008 String Quintets nos. 1 & 2
- 2008 Four American Quartets
- 2009 Piano Quintets
- 2010 String Quartets
- 2010 String Quintets, op. 29 & op. 104
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- 2012 Piano Quintet / Piano Quartet / Märchenerzählungen
- 2013 Piano Quartet in B-flat major / Piano Quintet in A minor / Barcarolle in F major
- 2015 Beethoven: String Quartets Opus 18
- 2015 Piano Concertos nos. 20 and 21
- 2016 Herrmann: Souvenirs de Voyage / Del Tredici: Magyar Madness
- 2018 Piano Concertos nos. 23 and 24
- 2020 Fugues and Rarities for String Quartet
- 2021 Piano Concertos nos. 9 and 17
- 2021 Spirit of Bohemia
- 2023 Early Chamber Music
- 2023 Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 25 (Arr. for Piano & String Quintet by Ignaz Lachner)
- Quartet in B-flat, op. 132
- Quartet in D minor "Death and the Maiden"
- Quintet in C major KV 515 / Quintet in G minor KV 516
- The Fine Arts Quartet playing Béla Bartók String Quartets no. 1, op. 7 / no. 2, op. 17
- The Lyrinx Recordings
