(featuring : Alexandre Tchernov - violin I ; Irina Popova - violin II ; Igor Bogouslavski - viola ; and, Alexandre Roudine - cello) A nice compact disc-package, that was released on the joint, and respected labels, "Harmonia Mundi / Le Chant du Monde / Saison Russe" in the Mid-Nineties. It features some November 1991 recordings, made at the legendary Moscow Conservatory, and featuring a quartet of musicians, who had all risen through the highly competitive - and talent-rich -, Soviet classical-music-system, which was crumbling before the performers' eyes, as they played! The material, are two String Quartets by the celebrated Norwegian, Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), a talented composer who is often unjustly-overlooked, as merely "The man who composed the 'Peer Gynt' suites" ... 1)-4) String Quartet No.1 in G minor Op.27 (35:48). 5),6) String Quartet No.2 in F major (unfinished ; 20:30). The cover opens into a 16-page, EX condition, mono - except for the Outside Covers - booklet (sample