Review: 55 CDs of the Excellent Emerson Quartet

With superb cycles of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Bartók, the Emersons offer some of the best chamber music playing you'll find anywhere. Whether you already have most of this stuff, or need another big box, is of course up to you, but it's good to see Deutsche Grammophon at least giving the group the attention that it deserves.