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WALTER PISTON
Piston: Chamber Music including the Quintet for Flute & Sting Quartet 1999 Australian Festival of Chamber Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] "The Naxos American Classics series is throwing up both intriguing repertoire and some appealing performances" The Strad |
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ALFRED HILL
Hill: String Quartets, Vol. 1 (Nos. 1 - 3) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2007 ] "The Dominion Quartet of New Zealand plays up a storm in all three selections, making a strong case for Hill's music. The recorded sound is quite good assuring you an outstanding disc of discovery from down under." Classical Lost and Found, June 30, 2007 |
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ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 3 (Nos. 5, 7 & 9) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] "The music could hardly wish for more sympathetic and immaculately played performances...the interplay between instruments, on which much of the music thrives, always well balanced." Naxos Review |
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ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 4 (Nos. 10, 11 & 'Life' Quintet) Dominion String Quartet with Richard Mapp (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] Alfred Hill was the doyen of Australasian composers, and his exploration of the string quartet demonstrates the range of his imagination. Both the Tenth and Eleventh quartets were written in 1935, but they offer richly differing affiliations. No. 10... |
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QUINCY PORTER
Porter: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 Ives Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] Quincy Porter was one of a diverse generation of American composers who played a significant role in shaping and directing American musical culture in the mid-twentieth century. |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 64 Nos. 1-3 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] The string quartets of Opus 64 constitute a second set of six quartets for the violinist Johann Tost, who had led the second violins of Haydn's orchestra at Esterhaza from 1783 until his departure for Paris in 1788 |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 64 Nos. 4, 5 'Lark' & 6 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2009 ] "This group's versions of the Haydn quartets are among the glories of the Naxos label" - Irish Evening Press |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 71 Nos. 1-3 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2007 ] "The Naxos recordings by the Kodály Quartet are outstanding in every way and would be highly recommendable even without their considerable price advantage. The performances are superbly shaped, naturally paced and alive; the playing is cultivated,... |
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Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 9 & 10 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Peter Maxwell Davies is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time, and is currently Master of the Queen's Music. His musical idiom has been described by The New York Times as a combination of 'medieval mysticism, modernist... |
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ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Moeran: String Quartets / String Trio Maggini String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "I do urge you to investigate this enterprising, hugely enjoyable collection" (Gramophone) |
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ALBAN BERG / HUGO WOLF
Berg: String Quartet / Lyric Suite / Wolf: Italian Serenade New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2007 ] The New Zealand String Quartet play masterpieces by Berg and Wolf |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartet No 3 / Clarinet Quintet New Zealand String Quartet, with James Campbell (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Brahms wrote his String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 67 in 1876 and its largely unclouded and cheerful qualities culminate in a theme and variations finale of exceptional imagination and mastery of form. His last chamber music was inspired by a great... |
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LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: String Quartets Op 32, Nos.1 and 2 AEC Op.39 Quartetto Borciani [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] "It is the kind of music that I believe Mozart would have enjoyed for its Italian expressiveness and its charm. The Borciani Quartet is also completely Italian... Their playing is filled with spirit and energy, always flowing forward while sensitive... |
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JACOB WEINBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weinberg: Piano Concerto 2 / String Quartet Op. 55 / etc Jorge Federico Osorio (piano), Patrick Mason (baritone) / Bingham String Quartet, Barcelona Symphony, National Orchestra of Catalonia [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] This compact disc features world premiere recordings of three works by JACOB WEINBERG (1879-1956), who was born in the Ukraine to a cultured, assimilated family and studied first at the Moscow conservatory and then in Vienna. |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
The Best of Haydn Capella Istropolitana, Kodaly Quartet, Camerata Cassovia, Jeno Jando (piano), and many more [ Naxos Best Of / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] The very best of Haydn drawn from the vast Naxos catalogue. |
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JOSEPH HAYDN / W. A. MOZART / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Mozart/Haydn/Schumann: Chamber Music Favourites Jeno Jando (piano) / Kodaly Quartet, etc [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Recorded at the Unitarian Church, The Italian Institute, and the Reformed Church in Budapest |
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BOCCHERINI
Flute Quintets, Op. 17 Alexandre Magnin (flute) / Janacek Quartet) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2011 ] "There is plenty of graceful flute playing...You certainly won't often hear Boccherini performed with greater skill or tonal beauty" (Gramophone) |
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Theme and Variations Amici Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] Hauntingly beautiful recordings at budget price |
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STRAUSS / ELGAR / MOZART / ROSSINI / PURCELL
Cinema Classics 2006 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / George Hurst (Conductor) / Eder Quartet / Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia / Michael Halasz (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] Classical tracks and excerpts used in some of the most popular recent blockbuster movies! |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Shostakovich/Schnittke: Piano Quintets Boris Berman (piano) / Vermeer Quartet. [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2003 ] "Boris Berman and the Vermeer Quartet prove to be extremely sensitive to the emotional demands of each work, giving highly accomplished and committed performances in adequate, if somewhat studio-bound sound." - Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine,... |