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ROGER QUILTER
O Mistress Mine / To Daisies / Julia's Hair / Go, Lovely Rose and other songs Lisa Milne (mezzo-soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) Duke Quartet [ Naxos The English Song Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - Roger Quilter was born in Hove in 1877 into comfortable family circumstances. His father was Sir Cuthbert Quilter, who in 1881 founded the National Telephone Company and was for... |
JONATHAN BERGER
Miracles and Mud / Sink or Swim / Doubles / for amos Livia Sohn (violin) / St Lawrence String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] Jonathan Berger’s music is deeply spiritual and hauntingly evocative. |
ALBERTO GINASTERA
String Quartets Nos. 1-3 Lucy Shelton (soprano) / Enso Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] "String quartet playing of jaw-dropping prowess revealing masterpieces of the 20th century quartet literature." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2009) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Bruno Pasquier (viola) / Ludwig Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jul/1996 ] "Chamber music is especially well-served by the Naxos label and this new issue of the Brahms string quintets is very welcome...If you do not yet know the quintets, then the outlay of about a fiver will give you a lifetime's musical pleasure." -... |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 Lutosławski Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2016 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Chamber |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 Lutosławski Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2016 ] Grażyna Bacewicz is now emerging from the shadow of her Polish contemporaries, such as Panufnik and Lutosławski, on the international stage. She constantly sought ways to develop her style and it is this continuous line of development that is... |
HOWARD BLAKE
Violin Sonata / Piano Quartet / etc Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Jack Rothstein (violin) Kenneth Essex (viola), Peter Willison (cello) Howard Blake (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Howard Blake is a versatile composer who may be better known for his marvellous film scores The Snowman and Granpa in which his gifts for colourful orchestration and memorable tunes are clearly evident." |
ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Chamber Music Vol.1: String Quartet No.1 String Quartet in A major etc Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Sep/2002 ] Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine Sept 2002) |
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2004 ] "A magnificent start to what promises to be a rewarding project' - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Awards Issue |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 1-10 (complete) Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / 5 CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] "This is quite simply the greatest and most generously rewarding quartet cycle since that of Elliott Carter…and, unlike Carter's and the output of most other composers of quartets, the Naxos Quartets are absolutely a cycle, conceived from the outset |
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 3 and 4 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] "A brisk, well-sung performance of Haydn's late choral masterpiece" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (June 2005) |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 5 & 6 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Apr/2006 ] "Historically, the Maxwell Davies 'Naxos' Quartets may well be Naxos' most significant achievement. The Maggini Quartet plays this fascinating music with the utmost dedication. Those of us lucky enough to have attnded some of the Wigmore Premieres... |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 and 8 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "Little did we know, when Max was commissioned by budget label Naxos to write 10 string quartets, what a late flowering odyssey it would be, all his mature skills coalescing within the intense discipline of Haydn-esque form. The Seventh Quartet is an... |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: String Quartet No. 3 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] The last of Bax's string quartets, his last extended chamber work, dates from the summer of 1936 when he was 52, and it is fascinating to place it beside works for the same medium written when he was a student. Bax produced two student string... |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "Another British string quartet rarity from the Maggini Quartet. Fine performances of two superbly confident chamber works." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (January 2002) |
EDMUND RUBBRA
String Quartets Nos 1, 3 & 4 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "Too often bracketed with the English pastoral school, Edmund Rubbra (1901-86) was a highly individual voice in British music...This is surely music that will grow in stature, especially through these committed performances." (Observer) |
JOHN IRELAND
String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / The Holy Boy Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] "Ireland's student works 'as dull as dishwasher'? Here's a disc that will make you think again. One has to admire Ireland's perseverance if the old story is true. It is said that the young composer took his first string quartet to his hero, Stanford,... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Vita Abundans Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Apr/2007 ] "Excellently performed with the benefit of first class recorded sound. Arnold a popular and lightweight composer? Certainly not with these scores!" (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Sept 2007) |
LENNOX BERKELEY
String Quartets Nos. 1-3 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Jan/2008 ] "The players' ensemble is impeccable while allowing individualism free rein in the more contrapuntal passages." --Review by Matthew Rye, The Daily Telegraph |
WILLIAM ALWYN
String Quartets Nos. 1-3 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "The Maggini plays this music convincingly, the technique sounds superb and the balance of the formal structures and the varying harmonic language are handled competently. Altogether, a thoroughly enjoyable recording. Additionally the programme notes... |
