The Glière Quartet was founded in 2017 in Vienna. It consists of excellent musicians who are passion-ate about chamber music, especially about quartet works: Polish-Austrian violinist Dominika Falger (leader of the 2nd violin section of the Wiener Symphoniker), German violist Martin Edelmann, since 2018 (Wiener Symphoniker), Hungarian cellist Endre F. Stankowsky (Solocello Budapest Opera), and Ukrainian-Austrian first violinist and founder of the ensemble Wladislaw Winokurow specializing in the interpretation of pieces by Ukrainian and Russian composers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On this release, the Glière Quartet showcases their namesake’s String Quartets, Nos 1 and 2.