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The Alberni Quartet
Band, GB
Classical
The Alberni Quartet is a string quartet, whose members have included:They are based in Harlow, Essex where they became established in the 1960s as the town's "quartet in residence", and by the mid-1970s had become world-renowned. Their debut in the Carnegie Hall was well received in the New York Times, and they received positive reviews of their recordings of Schumann's piano quintet, Schubert's string quintet and Brahms' string sextets.They are still performing and teaching worldwide (2011).
Members
 | David Smith vc |
 | Roger Best vl 1936-2013 GB |
 | Peter Pople vn |
 | Howard Davis vn 1940-2008 GB |
| Berian Evans vl |
 | John White vl 1938-2013 |
| Gregory Baron vc |
Band Membership
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| String Quartets - Borodin String Quartet No.2/Tchaikovsky Quartet No.1 | The Alberni Quartet, Alexander Borodin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1993 | Compil. |
| Schubert: Trout Quintet / Death And The Maiden | Franz Schubert, Seta Tanyel, The Alberni Quartet | 1993 | Album |
| Mozart String Quartets No.17&18 - Volume Three | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Alberni Quartet | 1991 | Album |
| Mozart: String Quartet Nos. 14 & 15 | The Alberni Quartet | 1990 | Album |
| Octet In E Flat, Tow Pieces For Octet Elegy And Polka | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Dmitri Shostakovich, The Medici Quartet, The Alberni Quartet | 1988 | Album |
| String Quartets, Op. 41, Nos. 1 And 2 | Robert Schumann, The Alberni Quartet | 1985 | Album |
| Granados: Works for Piano | Thomas Rajna, The Alberni Quartet, Enrique Granados | 1984 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 5 & 6 / Three Wordsworth Songs For High Voice And String Quartet | William Wordsworth - The Alberni Quartet With Ian Partridge | 1981 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 | Benjamin Britten - The Alberni Quartet | 1981 | Album |
| String Quartet In E Minor / Crisantemi For String Quartet / String Quartet No. 13 In A Major | Giuseppe Verdi / Giacomo Puccini / Gaetano Donizetti - The Alberni Quartet | 1979 | Album |
| Shostakovich: Piano Quintet In G Minor Op. 57 / Britten: String Quartet No. 1 In D Major, Op. 25 | Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten, The Alberni Quartet | 1978 | Album |
| Brahms / Bruckner | The Alberni Quartet, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Roger Best, Moray Welsh | 1978 | Album |
| Sextet For Two Violins, Two Violas And Two Violoncellos In B Flat Major Op.18 / Quartettsatz Op. Posth. D.703 | Johannes Brahms / Franz Schubert - The Alberni Quartet With Roger Best And Moray Welsh | 1977 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 1 In A Minor Op. 41 No. 1 / String Quartet No. 2 In F Major Op. 41 No. 2 | Robert Schumann, The Alberni Quartet | 1976 | Album |
| Piano Quintet In E Flat Major, Opus 44 / Piano Quartet In E Flat Major, Opus 47 | Robert Schumann - Thomas Rajna, The Alberni Quartet | 1976 | Album |
| String Quintet In C Major (Op. 163 - D 956) | Franz Schubert - The Alberni Quartet With Thomas Igloi | 1975 | Album |
| Schumann - String Quartet No. 3 / Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 2 | The Alberni Quartet | 1975 | Album |
| String Quartets No 1, 2 & 3 | Alan Rawsthorne, The Alberni Quartet | 1966 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 38 "The Joke" / String Quartet No. 39 "The Bird" | Joseph Haydn, The Alberni Quartet | 1965 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 38 "The Joke" / String Quartet No. 39 "The Bird" | Joseph Haydn, The Alberni Quartet | 1965 | Album |
| Brahms String Sextets | The Alberni Quartet | Album | |
| Bruckner: String Quintet & Intermezzo | The Alberni Quartet, Anton Bruckner | Album |
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