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The Emerson Quartet played live in The Greene Space to celebrate its 40th anniversary and release a new recording "Chaconnes and Fantasias: Music of Britten and Purcell", which is their first on Universal Music Classics’ new US classical record label, Decca Gold.

This performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 8th String Quartet in C minor, Op. 110, by the Emerson String Quartet, took place on December 16, 2018 on Parlance Chamber Concerts at West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ.

This performance of Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C, D. 956, Op. Posth 163 by the Emerson String Quartet and guest cellist David Finckel took place on December 16, 2018, on Parlance Chamber Concerts at West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ.

The Emerson String Quartet finds itself in the hot seat, answering (almost) everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

On May 11, 2013, departing cellist David Finckel passed the baton to incoming member Paul Watkins, marking the Emerson String Quartet's first change in personnel in 34 years.

This release unites on record for the first time America’s reigning star soprano Renée Fleming and its premier string quartet, The Emersons, to take us on a journey into the twilight world of Vienna in the 1920s and 30s in music imbued with late romanticism and burgeoning modernism.

TRT World profiles the Emerson String Quartet as the group looks to its 40th anniversary season.