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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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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,... |
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... |
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) |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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) |
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 |
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! |
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,... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet / String Quartet No.3 Boris Rener (clarinet) / Quatuor Ludwig [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2002 ] "effective and touching contrasts of mood and idiom.." -Michael Jameson |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: Complete String Quartets Volume 5 - Nos 2 & 8 Carpe Diem Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] "This fine disc represents a safe recommendation." MusicWeb |
JENNIFER HIGDON
Higdon: Piano Trio / Voices / Impressions Cypress String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] Jennifer Higdon's philosophy in composing is simple: make sure the music communicates. It is her goal to write music that speaks not only to the seasoned professional performer, but also to audiences that come to this music with all types of... |
ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Rawsthorne: String Quartets Nos 1-3 / Theme and Variations David Angel (Violin) / Laurence Jackson (Violin) / Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2006 ] "The Magginis… display a more subtle variety of vibrato, generally lightening the texture but tightening the screw more effectively at moments of tension." BBC Music |
AARON COPLAND / ROBERT ALDRIDGE
Copland/Aldridge: Clarinet Concertos David Singer (clarinet) / A Far Cry Orchestra / The Shanghai Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Singer's Copland performance is one of the finest accounts around, and with Aldridge's Concerto worthy of discovery, this disc can be safely recommended." Gramophone |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Bassoon Concerto in F major / Clarinet Quartet in E flat major / etc Diego Dini-Ciacci (oboe), Fabrizio Meloni (clarinet) Claudio Gonella (bassoon) / Italian International Orchestra / Diego Dini-Ciacci [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Oct/2006 ] Largely neglected by posterity, Johann Nepomuk Hummel enjoyed the highest reputation in his own time as both composer and virtuoso performer. |
ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 5 (Nos. 12, 13 & 14) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Although Australian by birth, Alfred Hill spent much of his youth in New Zealand before embarking on studies in Leipzig, where he met Brahms, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky. A prolific symphonist and operatic composer, he also wrote a sequence of seventeen... |
ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 6 (Nos. 15 - 17) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] Alfred Hill was the leading Australian-born composer of the Late Romantic era. During his studies in Leipzig from 1887 to 1891, he encountered luminaries such as Brahms, Dvořak, Tchaikovsky and Strauss. His 17 String Quartets, the first... |
ALFRED HILL
String Quartets, Vol. 2 (Nos. 4, 6 & 8) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "The recording quality once again is excellent and the playing committed. There's more to get one's teeth into with this volume of the quartets though I am keenly awaiting the volume containing a performance of No.11." (MusicWeb Dec 2008) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quartets Vol 7 - K.170, K. 171, K. 421 Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD ] "A performance to earn its place on the shelves of even the most discriminating collector." Gramophone |
W.A MOZART
Mozart: String Quartets (Complete), Vol. 1 Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/1993 ] Recorded: 4-8 January 1991 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quintets (Complete) Fine Arts Quartet (with Danilo Rossi, viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "So unfamiliar as this repertoire is, it repays the effort in getting to know it, and one can hardly imagine these works being given a more sympathetic reading." (MusicWeb Recording of the Year 2008) |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet / The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15 Fred Sherry Quartet / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 2 / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "When you consider that this disc gives almost eighty minutes of music, including a rarely performed work in what Robert Craft describes as an unmatched performance, plus three other pieces and an interview, all for a super-budget price then it is... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintets Vol 3: No 5 & 6 Haydn Quartet, Budapest, with Sandor Papp (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Mar/2003 ] The Haydn Quartet, which has performed both in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe, was established on the basis of an earlier string trio. |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain / To a Poet / By Footpath and Stile Iain Burnside / Roderick Williams / Sacconi Quartet [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 15 / CD - released 3/Aug/2006 ] "Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Not only is he an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is - much over used word, but I can't see any... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Chamber Music - Piano Quartet, Op. 16 / Minuets and Dances Indiana University Wind Ensemble, Janette Fishell (organ), Sofia Kim (violin), Susie Kroh (violin), Aleck Belcher (double bass), etc [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] In his first decade in Vienna, Beethoven seems to have been preoccupied with music for wind instruments. The best-known example is his Quintet in E flat major, Op. 16, which he arranged at the same time for piano quartet. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets.Op.54 1-3 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Penguin Guide "The Kodaly players enter animatedly into the spirit of the music" Classic CD "Haydn's String Quartets by the Kodaly Quartet are wonderful" |
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets.Op 9, Nos 2,5,6 CSR Symphony Orchestra, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD ] "Overshadowed by four dozen later masterpieces, Haydn's Op 9 has usually received short shrift from players and commentators. The most familiar is the D minor, No 4, described by Hans Keller as 'the first great string quartet.' Gramophone |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op.50 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 24/May/1998 ] "The Kodály Quartet are back to their finest form in Op. 50 and they are most naturally recorded. These are mellow performances, warm and polished, with perfect blending of timbre, yet refined detail." Penguin Guide Key Recording |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 17, Nos. 1, 2 and 4 Kodaly Quartet [ NAXOS / CD - released 27/Oct/2007 ] Joseph Haydn was born in the village of Rohrau in 1732, the son of a wheelwright. Trained at the choir-school of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, he spent some years earning a living as best he could from teaching and playing the violin or... |
