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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Brahms: Piano Quintet Glenn Gould (piano) / Montreal String Quartet / Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Glenn Gould played Beethoven's piano concertos from the beginning of his short concert career, this recording being made when he was 24, the same age as the composer when he wrote his Piano Concerto No. 2. |
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Golden Gate Quartet
Gospel Train [ Naxos Gospel Legends / CD - released 3/May/2004 ] |
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HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Goldmund Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] Joseph Haydn claimed to have discovered the string quartet form by accident. His Op. 1, No. 1 has the cheerful five-movement form of a Divertimento, while the glorious and harmonically daring Op. 77, No. 1 was among the last he completed in the... |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Szymanowski: String Quartets / Stravinsky: Concertino Goldner String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "The Goldner String Quarter of Australia, offer strongly characterised readings." - The Irish Times (Dublin) |
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CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Piano Trio No. 2 / Piano Quartet No. 1 Gould Piano Trio, with David Adams (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Apr/2015 ] 'It's more than three years since the previous Stanford volume from this superb group: they clearly love this music, and it's a joyous listen to place alongside its equally fine predecessors.' Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2015 |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: String Qrts.1 & 2 / Cello sonata Aurora String Quartet, with Michael Grebanier (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "Aurora Quartet gives well-moulded performances." BBC Music Magazine |
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CHARLES WUORINEN
Wuorinen: String Sextet / String Quartet No. 2 / Piano Quintet / Divertimento Group for Contemporary Music / Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society / Tashi [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] "If you are up for a challenge then you will certainly find plenty to spar with on this disc" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
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MORTON FELDMAN
String Quartet (1979) The Group For Contemporary Music [ NAXOS / CD ] "Morton Feldman's mind worked in a manner unlike that of any other composer. This fact alone makes him important and his music riveting." --Review by Phillip Scott, Fanfare |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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). |
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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 |
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ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: String Quartets, Nos. 1 and 2 Haydn Quartet, Budapest [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] "The Haydn Quartet of Budapest play both works with a passionate display of Slavonic temperament" - Penguin Guide |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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,... |