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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) |
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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 |
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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... |
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FRANK BRIDGE
Works for String Quartet Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "As a single disc devoted to Early Bridge the Maggini's is still a classy contribution." (MusicWeb) |
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WALTON
Piano Quartet in A minor / String Quartet in A minor Maggini Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Sep/2000 ] Colourful chamber works from this internationally famous English composer |
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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Piano Quartet In D Minor Maggini Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2010 ] |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet / String Quartets Nos.1 & 2 Maggini String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2001 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER: Chamber - Rosette [highest rating] - Penguin Stereo Guide |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Past & Future - From Heavy Metal to Symphony Orchestra Magnus Rosén (electric bass) / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Hvila Quartet / David Björkman [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] Past Future - for the first time a record featuring the electric bass as solo instrument with symphony orchestra. Magnus Rosén is a former member of multi-platinum and award winning heavymetal act Hammerfall, but has in later years pursued a career... |
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CHOPIN / ROSSINI / OFFENBACH / BIZET / LALO / CHABRIER / etc
Art and Music: Manet - Music of His Time Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Polish National Radio Symphony, Kodály Quartet, etc [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 31/Mar/2003 ] Edouard Manet (1832-83) has been called the father of modern painting. In the 1860s he was the leader of a group of young artists who later became known as the Impressionists, though his own work resists any simple label. On this CD, the world of... |
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LORENZO PALOMO
My Secluded Garden / Madrigal and 5 Sephardic Songs / Concierto de Cienfuegos Maria Bayo (soprano) Pepe Romero (guitar) / Romero Guitar Quartet / Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra / Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2009 ] Acclaimed for her 'beautifully clear, warm and intelligent coloratura' (The Gramophone) and 'naturally bright, vernal timbre' (BBC Music Magazine), Spanish soprano María Bayo has shone as a prima donna internationally, yet reserves a special place... |
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RONALD CORP
String Quartets / Country Matters Mark Wilde (tenor) / Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "The First Quartet, which draws its inspiration from the character and habitat of that noble bird the bustard, is, like its companion piece, well made and securely in an English tradition voiced with supple energy." (Dailt Telegraph) |
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Martinu Quartet
Martinu: String Quartets 3 & 6 [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2002 ] |
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MARTINU
String Quartets 4, 5 & 7 Martinu Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jan/2003 ] "[The Martinu Quartet] certainly enjoys the same qualities of top to bottom equality of ensemble, keen rhythmic sense, and a sure understanding of the idiom…. Ideally natural recorded sound rounds out this fine release, certainly a jewel in Naxos'... |
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MARTINU
String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Three Horsemen Martinu Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
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CARRAPATOSO / MARQUES / AZEVEDO / LAPA
RAÍZES - Portuguese Chamber Music Matosinhos String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Raízes (Portuguese for 'roots') features new works commissioned by the Matosinhos String Quartet, in which composers were invited to write works inspired by melodies, dances and stories from Portuguese traditional folklore. Returning to their... |
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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata, Toccata Matthew Jones, Sarah-Jane Bradley, Tim Lowe, Annabel Thwaite [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] These four works represent all of Sir William Walton's chamber music involving both violin and piano, as well as being a microcosm of his compositional output between 1918 and 1950. They offer a fascinating glimpse of Walton's stylistic journey, from... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R,): Piano Trios & Works for Piano Quartet Max Mandel (viola) / Amelia Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] These youthful chamber works by Richard Strauss, not widely represented on disc, are filled with sparkling inventiveness and lyricism. |
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DOUGLAS WEILAND
Weiland: String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5 Melbourne Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "lovers of fine English chamber music should snap this up without delay." MusicWeb |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Quartets, K. 478 and K. 493 Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Feb/2006 ] The Piano Quartet in E flat major, K.493, was completed on 3rd June 1786, a month after the first performance of the new opera The Marriage of Figaro. |