Collected over 13 CDs are the complete Argo recordings of the Allegri String Quartet. Highlights include not only great masterpieces of the quartet repertoire - the ageless works of Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms - but the 1969 Radcliffe Award-winning quartets of Forbes, Maconchy, Johnson and Sculthorpe. The recordings are accompanied by a 40pp book (En/Fr/De) with new notes by Jeremy Hayes.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Heinrich Josef Baermann (1784-1847), Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Albert Roussel (1869-1937), Sebastian Forbes (geb. 1941), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014), Robert Sherlaw Johnson (1932-2000)

Franz Schubert: Streichquartette Nr. 7-15; Streichquintett C-Dur D. 969

+Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartette Nr. 10 & 11

+Johannes Brahms: Streichquartette Nr. 1 & 2; Streichquintette Nr. 1 & 2; Klarinettenquintett op. 115

+Heinrich Josef Baermann: Klarinettenquintett Nr. 3 op. 23 (Adagio)

+Luigi Boccherini: Oboenquintette Nr. 13-18 (op. 55 Nr. 1-6)

+Benjamin Britten: Streichquartette Nr. 1 & 2

+Maurice Ravel: Introduction & Allegro

+Albert Roussel: Serenade op. 30

+Sebastian Forbes: Streichquartett Nr. 1

+Elizabeth Maconchy: Streichquartett Nr. 9

+Robert Sherlaw Johnson: Streichquartett Nr. 2

+Peter Sculthorpe: Streichquartett Nr. 8