KONTRA QUARTET
Kontra Quartet
The Kontra-quartet is today Denmark's leading and most active string quartet
with a vast repertoire of both classic and contemporary music. Of the later
classics it is only natural that Bartok's singularly difficult quartets have
appealed to the four players (the quartet's primo, Anton Kontra, was born in
Hungary), but the recording of the Carl Nielsen string quartets is no doubt
the ensemble's greatest success to date.
It is, however, the many first-performances of Danish contemporary music that
contribute to making the Kontra-quartet something quite special in Danish musical
life: the group has become no less than an expert-ensemble on contemporary Danish
music, and has recorded works of Erling Brene, Ole Buck, Lars Heegård,
Erik Højsgaard, Steen Pade, and Carl Nielsen's contemporary Rued Langgaard.
The Kontra-quartet was founded in 1973.
The four players are:
1st violin
Anton Kontra, born in Hungary 1932
instrument: Antonius Stradivarius 1732.
2nd violin
Boris Samsing, born 1943
instrument: Carlo Fernando Landolfi, 1785.
Viola
Peter Fabricius, born 1943
Instrument: Jean Baptiste Ceruti, 1832.
Cello
Morten Zeuthen, born 1951
Instrument: Francesco Ruggeri, 1680.
| ABRAHAMSEN / RUDERS: String Quartets |
Dacapo
DCCD 9006 |
Chamber Music
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| GADE: Chamber Music |
BIS
BIS-CD-545 |
Chamber Music
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| GADE: String Quartets |
BIS
BIS-CD-516 |
Chamber Music
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| GRIEG: Complete Music for String Quartet |
BIS
BIS-CD-543 |
Chamber Music
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| GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN: For Cello and Orchestra / Concerto Grosso / Frere Jacques |
Dacapo
8.224060 |
Orchestral
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| HEISE: Chamber Music |
Dacapo
DCCD 9113 |
Chamber Music
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| HOLMBOE, V.: Key Masterpieces (The) - Requiem for Nietzsche / String Quartet No. 4 / Chamber Concerto No. 2 |
Dacapo
8.226101-02 |
Concertos, Orchestral, Chamber Music, Instrumental
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| HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets (Complete) (Kontra Quartet) |
Dacapo
8.207001 |
Chamber Music
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| HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 and 4 (Kontra Quartet) |
Dacapo
DCCD 9203 |
Chamber Music
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| HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets Nos. 10, 11, and 12 (Kontra Quartet) |
Dacapo
8.224101 |
Chamber Music
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| HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets Nos. 13-15 (Kontra Quartet) |
Dacapo
8.224127 |
Chamber Music
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| HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets Nos. 16 and 18 / Svaerm (Kontra Quartet) |
Dacapo
8.224131 |
Chamber Music
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| HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets Nos. 17, 19 and 20 |
Dacapo
8.224128 |
Chamber Music
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| HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets Nos. 2, 5, and 6 |
Dacapo
8.224026 |
Chamber Music
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| HOLMBOE, V.: String Quartets Nos. 7, 8 and 9 (Kontra Quartet) |
Dacapo
8.224073 |
Chamber Music
|
| JORGENSEN: Confrontations |
Dacapo
8.224137 |
Orchestral, Chamber Music, Instrumental
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| KODALY: String Quartets No. 1 & 2 / Gavotte |
BIS
BIS-CD-564 |
Chamber Music
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| LANGGAARD: String Quartets |
Dacapo
DCCD 9302a-2b |
Chamber Music
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| NIELSEN: 4 String Quartets / String Quintet |
BIS
BIS-CD-503-04 |
Orchestral, Chamber Music
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| SAVERY: String Quartet No. 2 / Trio / Synergie / Variations for Clarinet and String Quartet |
Dacapo
8.226528 |
Chamber Music
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| SCHMIDT, O.: String Quartets, Vol. 1 |
Dacapo
8.224210 |
Chamber Music
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| SCHMIDT, O.: String Quartets, Vol. 2 |
Dacapo
8.224211 |
Chamber Music
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| SEGERSTAM: Thoughts |
BIS
BIS-CD-583 |
Orchestral
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| SVENDSEN: String Quartet in A minor |
BIS
BIS-CD-753 |
Chamber Music
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| TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 |
BIS
BIS-CD-642 |
Chamber Music |
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