Emerson String Quartet - This photo was taken during the sessions in...

The Emerson String Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets with an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades: over thirty acclaimed recordings produced with Deutsche Grammophon since 1987, nine Grammy® Awards (including two for Best Classical Album, an unprecedented honor for a chamber music group), three Gramophone Awards, the coveted Avery Fisher Prize and cycles of the complete Beethoven, Bartók, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich string quartets in the world's musical capitals, from New York to London and Vienna.

Dec 24

This photo was taken during the sessions in December 1990, when we recorded the Schubert Quintet with Mstislav Rostropovich. We had a great time that week! My wife Roberta and David’s wife Wu Han are shown in the foreground with the irrepressible Slava.