BELA BARTOK
Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2 / Piano Quintet Gyorgy Pauk (violin) / Jeno jando (piano) / Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] The two Rhapsodies, originally for violin and piano, were both written in 1928, the year of Bartók's Fourth Quartet. Both Rhapsodies appeared in versions for solo violin and orchestra, possibly the composer's final intention, and in versions for... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Transcriptions Hanna Shybayeva (piano), Animato Quartet, Bas Vliegenthart (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] The first volume (8.551400) with Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concertos for piano and string quintet already showed that this would be quite a special complete recording of Beethoven's piano concertos-and not just... |
WALTER PISTON
Piston: String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 & 5 Harlem Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The first thing you notice in listening to this recording is the beautiful individual and ensemble sound of the Harlem Quartet. Without ever softening its sharp edges, the group's basic sound is a consistent pleasure all by itself--just lovely... |
DAVID L. POST
String Quartet Nos. 2-4 Hawthorne String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] 'The string quartet has always seemed to me to be the pinnacle of musical expression,' remarks David L. Post, an American composer who makes 'this modest ensemble sing in seemingly impossible ways' (Fanfare). |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op.51 [The Seven Last Words] & Op.10 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Dec/2008 ] "The recording is first rate, vividly present yet naturally balanced, like the other issues in this attractive Naxos series." Gramophone |
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. |
DVORAK
Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 Helena Sucharova-Weiser (piano) / Vlach Quartet, Prague [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] Dvorák's two piano quartets stand beside those of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann as important contributions to the chamber music repertoire. |
DEREK BERMEL
Bermel: Intonations - music for clarinet and strings Derek Bermel (Clarinet) Christopher Otto (Violin) Wiek Hijmans (Electric guitar) / JACK Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Twice GRAMMY-nominated composer and performer Derek Bermel studied with Henri Dutilleux, Dutch avant-gardist Louis Andriessen, and ragtime revivalist William Bolcom. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Idil Biret Archive Edition Volume 18 - Brahms: Piano Quintet Idil Biret (piano) / London String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] "Idil Biret's tensile, rhythmic playing was especially fine here." - Music and Musicians - UK March 1980 |
MAHLER
Mahler - Quartet for Piano and Strings (with Franck - Quintet) Idil Biret (piano) London String Quartet [ Naxos Idil Biret Archive Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "..the earliest Mahler work to have come down to us, the single movement for piano quartet in A minor, which he wrote while a student at the Vienna Conservatory |
MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / MAHLER / etc
Idil Biret Best of Chamber Music - With Selections from the Complete Studio Recordings Idil Biret (piano), with Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Borusan Quartet; London String Quartet [ Naxos Idil Biret Archive / 4 CD Box Set - released 4/Dec/2020 ] From the age of 16, Idil Biret played as a soloist with the most distinguished orchestras in the world including the London Symphony, the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, and many others. |
JAMES HARTWAY
Imaginary Creatures / 3 Myths / Images of Mogador / etc Imaginary Creatures String Quartet / Woodland Trio [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 31/Jan/2008 ] "Fresh", "creative", "optimistic", "accessible" are some of the adjectives used to describe the compositions of contemporary composer James Hartway. This CD features some of Hartway's best-known chamber works, such as Images of Mogador for harp,... |
Isasi Quartet
Isasi: String Quartets [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] |
JAKUB JAN RYBA
String Quartet / 2 Flute Quartets Jan Ostry / M. Nostitz Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Nov/2006 ] "Flautist Jan Ostrý and the M. Nostitz Quartet are quite well-balanced, with no tendency for the brightness of the flute to overpower. The sound and ambient presence of the recording are warm and distant enough to allow for a sense of space without... |
Janos Eder Quartet/Fehervari
Mozart:string Quintets Vol2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
SCHOENBERG
6 A Cappella Mixed Choruses / String Quartet No. 2 / Suite in G major Jennifer Welch-Babidge (soprano) / Simon Joly Singers / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Fred Sherry Quartet / Robert Craft (conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 3 / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "A thoroughly enjoyable release which should convert many to Schoenberg's music." (MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / BRAHMS / HAYDN / MENDELSSOHN / etc
Great Chamber Music [10 CD set] Jeno Jando (piano), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Kodaly Quartet, Gould Piano Trio, Joachim Trio, etc [ Naxos / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2015 ] This collection of great chamber music brings together nine giants of music in works which reveal their most immediate and individual expressive worlds: proof if ever any was needed that less can be much, much more. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms/Schumann: Piano Quintets Jeno Jando (piano) / Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD ] "This is robust music-making, romantic in spirit, and its spontaneity is well projected by a vivid recording, made in an attractively resonant acoustic. An excellent bargain." Penguin Guide |
ROGER SESSIONS
String Quintet / String Quartet No. 1 / Canons Joshua Gordon (Cello) / Group for Contemporary Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2006 ] "With expert performances and reprised notes this is a self-recommending disc. Those unconvinced by the quintet may yet revel in the quartet, a work well worth getting to know – and at this price there’s no reason not to." (MusicWeb June 2006) |
W.A. MOZART
Clarinet Quintets Jozsef Balogh (clarinet) / Danubius Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2006 ] "this account holds its own alongside many at full price" - BBC Music Magazine |