Emerson String Quartet

Since its formation in 1976, the Emerson String Quartet has gradually achieved recognition as one of the world's top chamber ensembles, with daring interpretations of core string quartet repertory that tend toward the personal, the passionate, and even the hell-for-leather. It has performed the complete quartet cycles of Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, and Bartók in major concert halls around the world. The Emerson String Quartet, named for Ralph Waldo Emerson, was formed in the early '70s when its members were all students at the Juilliard School in New York. It define...