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The Fine Arts Quartet
Band, *1946 US
Classical
The Fine Arts Quartet is a chamber music ensemble founded in Chicago, USA in 1946 by Leonard Sorkin and George Sopkin. The Quartet, based at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee since 1963, has recorded and toured internationally for over half a century, making it one of the longest enduring major string quartets.
Members
 | Bernard Zaslav vl *1926 US |
 | Robert Cohen vc *1959 GB |
 | Ralph Evans vn *1953 US |
 | Joseph Stepansky vn |
 | Irving Ilmer vl US |
 | Leonard Sorkin vn 1916-1985 US |
 | Abram Loft vn US |
 | George Sopkin vc 1914-2008 US |
| Sheppard Lehnhoff vl 1905-1978 US |
 | Juan Miguel Hernandez vl *1985 CA |
 | Efim Boico vn IL |
Band Membership
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quatuors A Cordes II / String Quartets II / Streichquartette II | Ludwig van Beethoven - The Fine Arts Quartet / Quartetto Di Roma / Quatuor Pascal | 2019 | Album |
| Souvenirs De Voyage / Magyar Madness | Bernard Herrmann, David Del Tredici, The Fine Arts Quartet, Michel Lethiec | 2016 | Album |
| Piano Quintet; Piano Quartet; Märchenerzählungen | Robert Schumann, The Fine Arts Quartet, Xiayin Wang | 2012 | Album |
| String Quartets / Harmonies Du Soir | Fritz Kreisler, Efrem Zimbalist, Eugène Ysaÿe, The Fine Arts Quartet, Philharmonic Orchestra Of Europe, Otis Klöber | 2012 | Album |
| String Quintets Op. 29 & Op. 104 | Ludwig van Beethoven, The Fine Arts Quartet, Gil Sharon | 2010 | Album |
| String Quartet • Piano Quintet | César Franck, The Fine Arts Quartet, Cristina Ortiz | 2009 | Album |
| Quartet In E Flat Opus 74 / Quartet In F Minor Opus 95 | Ludwig Van Beethoven | 2009 | Album |
| Die Streichquartette = The String Quartets | Ernst von Dohnányi - The Fine Arts Quartet | 2008 | Album |
| Four American Quartets | Philip Glass • Bernard Herrmann • George Antheil • Ralph Evans, The Fine Arts Quartet | 2008 | Album |
| String Quartets | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Fine Arts Quartet | 2006 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 1-3 | The Fine Arts Quartet, Robert Schumann | 2006 | Album |
| String Quintet, Op. 39; Five Novellettes, Op. 15 | Alexander Glazunov, The Fine Arts Quartet, Nathaniel Rosen | 2005 | Album |
| The Romantic Quartets (Quartet No. 13, Op. 29; Quartet No. 3, Op. 67) | Franz Schubert / Johannes Brahms - The Fine Arts Quartet | 2001 | Album |
| Quartet In B Flat - Opus 130 | Ludwig van Beethoven - The Fine Arts Quartet | 2000 | Album |
| Complete String Quartets | Ludwig van Beethoven - The Fine Arts Quartet | 2000 | Album |
| Quartet In E Flat, K. 428 / Quartet In D, K. 575 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1999 | Album |
| Courtly Music Of Mendelssohn | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1998 | Album |
| Beethoven Quartet In B-flat - Opus 132 | Ludwig van Beethoven, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1998 | Album |
| Early Quartets Opus 18 Complete (Numbers 1 Through 6) | Ludwig van Beethoven • The Fine Arts Quartet | 1997 | Album |
| Quintet For Piano And Strings In A, D. 667 "The Trout" • String Quartet No. 14 In D Minor, D. 810 "Death And The Maiden" | Franz Schubert, The Fine Arts Quartet, Frank Glazer, Harold Siegel | 1997 | Compil. |
| Octet In F For Strings And Winds, D. 803 • String Quartet No. 10 In E-flat, D. 87 | Franz Schubert, The Fine Arts Quartet, Harold Siegel, New York Woodwind Quintet | 1997 | Compil. |
| Mendelssohn - Quartet In D Major / Fuga / Unfinished Quartet / Capriccio | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / The Fine Arts Quartet | 1993 | Album |
| Quartet No. 3, Opus 22 / Quartet No. 5 | Paul Hindemith, Ernest Bloch, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1991 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 2 And 3 • Evocations De Slovaquie | Karel Husa / The Fine Arts Quartet, The Long Island Chamber Ensemble of New York, Lawrence Sobol | 1990 | Album |
| Die Grossen Streichquartette | Joseph Haydn - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1989 | Album |
| Quartet N 19 K 465 Dissonant / Quartet N 14 Death and The Maiden | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1986 | Album |
| Hornquintett Es-Dur KV 407 / Oboenquartett F-Dur KV 370 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Fine Arts Quartet, John Barrows, Ray Still | 1986 | Album |
| Schubert - Mozart - Haydn - Beethoven - Wolf | Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hugo Wolf - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1986 | Album |
| "American" Quartet, Quartet No.1, La Oracion Del Torero | The Fine Arts Quartet, Antonín Dvořák, Dmitri Shostakovich, Joaquín Turina | 1985 | Album |
| The Late Quartets | Ludwig Van Beethoven | 1984 | Album |
| String Quartet No.2, String Quarter No.4, String Quartet (1931) | The Fine Arts Quartet, John Downey, Ben Johnston, Ruth Crawford Seeger | 1980 | Album |
| Streichquartette | Dmitri Shostakovich / Sergei Prokofiev - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1979 | Album |
| Quintette pour clarinette et cordes en si mineur, Op. 115 | Johannes Brahms - The Fine Arts Quartet & Reginald Kell | 1978 | Album |
| El Arte De La Fuga, Vol 2 | Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fine Arts Quartet, New York Woodwind Quintet | 1976 | Compil. |
| 6 String Quintets | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Fine Arts Quartet With Francis Tursi | 1975 | Album |
| String Quartets Volume X | Joseph Haydn, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1972 | Album |
| Quartet No. 3 / String Quartet | Milton Babbitt / Charles Wuorinen, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1972 | Album |
| String Quartets Volume VIII | Joseph Haydn, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1972 | Album |
| Piano Quintet K. 452 / Oboe Quartet K. 370 / Quintet in Eb K. 407 For French Horn And Strings | Frank Glazer, Ray Still, John Barrows, The Fine Arts Quartet, New York Woodwind Quintet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1972 | Album |
| Quintet For Piano And Strings | Ernest Bloch - The Fine Arts Quartet, Frank Glazer | 1972 | Album |
| String Quartets Volume VIII | Joseph Haydn, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1972 | Album |
| Karel Husa Quartets (Nos. 2 And 3) | Karel Husa - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1971 | Album |
| Les Quatuors A Cordes Vol. I | Ludwig van Beethoven / The Fine Arts Quartet | 1970 | Album |
| The Middle Quartets • Opus 59 No. 1,2,3 • Opus 74 • Opus 95 | Ludwig Van Beethoven | 1969 | Album |
| Art Of Fugue/Kunst Der Fuge (BWV 1080) | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Fine Arts Quartet And New York Woodwind Quintet | 1969 | Album |
| String Quartets Volume VII (Quartets, Op. 50 / Unfinished Quartet, Op. 103) | Joseph Haydn / The Fine Arts Quartet | 1968 | Album |
| Art Of The Fugue - Contrapuncti One Twelve Through Fifteen - 2 | Johann Sebastian Bach - The Fine Arts Quartet And The New York Woodwind Quintet | 1968 | Album |
| Quartet In F, Op. 59, No. 1 | Ludwig Van Beethoven / Everest Records, Inc. | 1967 | Album |
| String Quartet In G Minor, Op. 10 / String Quartet In F Major | Claude Debussy / Maurice Ravel / The Fine Arts Quartet | 1966 | Album |
| Three Trios (The Birth Of Chamber Music In America) | John Antes - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1965 | Album |
| Art Of The Fugue - Contrapuncti One Through Eleven - 1 | Johann Sebastian Bach - The Fine Arts Quartet And The New York Woodwind Quintet | 1964 | Album |
| Quintet In A-Opus 81 | Antonín Dvořák, Frank Glazer, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1964 | Album |
| Art Of The Fugue, Part Two | Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fine Arts Quartet, New York Woodwind Quintet | 1964 | Album |
| Art Of The Fugue, Part One | Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fine Arts Quartet, New York Woodwind Quintet | 1964 | Album |
| Quartet In B Flat - Opus 135 And The Grosse Fugue Opus 133 | Ludwig van Beethoven - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1964 | Album |
| Art Of The Fugue, Part One | Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fine Arts Quartet, New York Woodwind Quintet | 1964 | Album |
| Streichquartett Es-Dur Op.127 | Ludwig van Beethoven - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1962 | Album |
| Flötenquartette | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Samuel Baron, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1962 | Album |
| Trout Quintet In A Major - D 667 | Franz Schubert - Frank Glazer With The Fine Arts Quartet With Harold Siegel | 1962 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 3 And 4 | Béla Bartók, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1962 | Album |
| Quartet In B Flat, K.589 / Quartet In F, K.590 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1961 | Album |
| Quartet In C Minor, Opus 51, No. 1 / Quartet In A Minor, Opus 51, No. 2 | Johannes Brahms – The Fine Arts Quartet | 1961 | Album |
| Quartet In E Flat, Opus 12 / Quartet In E Minor, Opus 44, No. 2 | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1961 | Album |
| Quartet In D Minor, K. 421 / Quartet In C, K. 465 - "Dissonance" | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1961 | Album |
| Quartet In D Minor, "Death And The Maiden" | Franz Schubert - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1961 | Album |
| Septet For Strings And Winds In E Flat, Opus 20 | Ludwig van Beethoven Featuring Members Of The Fine Arts Quartet • New York Woodwind Quartet • Harold Siegel | 1960 | Album |
| Octet For Strings And Winds, Op. 166 | Franz Schubert - The Fine Arts Quartet And The New York Woodwind Quintet | 1960 | Album |
| Quartet No. 14, In C Sharp Minor, Opus 131 | Ludwig van Beethoven, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1959 | Album |
| Opus 18 (No. 3 In D Major / No. 4 In C Minor) | Ludwig van Beethoven - The Fine Arts Quartet | 1959 | Album |
| String Quartets: No. 1, Opus 7; No. 2, Opus 17 | The Fine Arts Quartet, Béla Bartók | 1959 | Album |
| String Quartets No. 5, No. 6 | Béla Bartók / The Fine Arts Quartet | 1959 | Album |
| Quintet In B Minor, Opus 115 | Johannes Brahms - The Fine Arts Quartet With Reginald Kell | 1958 | Album |
| The Complete Quartets Of Béla Bartók | Béla Bartók, The Fine Arts Quartet, Leonard Sorkin, Abram Loft, Irving Ilmer, George Sopkin | 1958 | Album |
| String Quartets No. 3 (1927) & No. 4 (1928) | Béla Bartók / The Fine Arts Quartet | 1958 | Album |
| Nonette In F, Opus 31 | Louis Spohr, The Fine Arts Quartet, New York Woodwind Quintet | 1958 | Album |
| Quintet For Clarinet And Strings In A Major, K. 581 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Fine Arts Quartet And Reginald Kell | 1958 | Album |
| Music Of The Moravians In America • Six Quintets By John Frederick Peter | Johann Friedrich Peter - The Fine Arts Quartet with Fred Clem | 1955 | Album |
| Webcore Symphonette | The Fine Arts Quartet | 1954 | Album |
| Quintet In A Major For Clarinet And Strings, K. 581 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Reginald Kell, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1952 | Album |
| Quintet In B Minor, Op. 115 For Clarinet And Strings | Johannes Brahms / Reginald Kell, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1951 | Album |
| Quartet No. 13 In A Minor, Op. 29 / Quartet No. 1 In E-Flat, Op. 12 | The Fine Arts Quartet, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | 1950 | Album |
| Quartet No. 14 In D Minor ("Death And The Maiden") | The Fine Arts Quartet - Franz Schubert | 1948 | Album |
| Quartet No. 3, Op. 73 | The Fine Arts Quartet - Dmitri Shostakovich | 1947 | Album |
| Three Trios (The Birth Of Chamber Music In America) | John Antes - The Fine Arts Quartet | Album | |
| Quartet In D, Opus 20, No. 4 / Quartet In D Minor, Opus 76, No. 2 • "Quinten" | The Fine Arts Quartet, Joseph Haydn | Album | |
| The Complete Cycle Of Six String Quartets | The Fine Arts Quartet, Béla Bartók | Album | |
| Klarinettenquintett KV 581 ∙ Oboenquartett KV 370 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Fine Arts Quartet | Album | |
| Bloch: Concerto Grosso For String Orchestra And Piano & Quartet No. 5 | Ernest Bloch / Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted By David Epstein / The Fine Arts Quartet | Album | |
| Quartet In D, Opus 20, No. 4 / Quartet In D Minor, Opus 76, No. 2 • "Quinten" | The Fine Arts Quartet, Joseph Haydn | Album | |
| Mendelssohn - Octet In E Flat Major / Andante Scherzando | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / The Fine Arts Quartet | Album | |
| Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. IX | The Fine Arts Quartet | Album |
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