The Emerson String Quartet has consolidated its position as one of the leading American chamber groups since being chosen in the early 1980s by Deutsche Grammophon to record the string quartet literature for the new CD medium. The quartet was named after the transcendentalist philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson and was among the first whose violinists shared leadership duties. Founder members Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer alternate as first and second violinists; they and long-serving violist Lawrence Dutton were joined in 2013 by Welsh cellist Paul Watkins when his predecessor,… read more
The Emerson String Quartet has consolidated its position as one of the leading American chamber groups since being chosen in the early 1980s by Deutsche Grammophon to record the string quartet literature for the new CD medium. The quartet was named after the transcendentalist philosopher-poet… read more
The Emerson String Quartet has consolidated its position as one of the leading American chamber groups since being chosen in the early 1980s by Deutsche Grammophon to record the string quartet literature for the new CD medium. The quartet was named after the transcendentalist philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson and was among the first whose violinists shared lea… read more
