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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. |
COLON NANCARROW
Nancarrow: Pieces for Small Orchestra / Tango? / String Quartet No. 1 Mia Wu (violin) Mark Steinberg (violin) Rachel Evans (viola) Maria Kitsopoulos, cello / Cheryl Seltzer (piano) Joel Sachs (piano) etc [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] The United States has spawned numerous composers so original that they were initially rejected as eccentrics. Among the best known are Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Lou Harrison. For many years, rumours told of another such musician,... |
JOAN TOWER
Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 5 / Dumbarton Quintet Miami String Quartet / Daedalus Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] "This disc of fairly recent chamber works by one of the most prominent American composers (b1938)...makes a vivid case for the timeless relevance of the thoroughly well argued in music." (Sunday Times) |
ROSSINI
String Sonatas Nos.1 - 5 arranged for Wind Quartet Michael Thompson Wind Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Feb/2002 ] the cream of England's finest wind instrumentalists |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana - String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Tatjana Franova (piano) & Takako Nishizaki (violin) Moyzes Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "The playing here is vigorous, idiomatic and committed." Northern Echo |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: String Quartets Nos.1 and 2 Moyzes Quartet, with Tatjana Franova (piano) Takako Nishizaki (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2005 ] "The playing here is vigorous, idiomatic and committed" - Northern Echo (UK) |
KROMMER
Oboe Quartet No. 3 / Oboe Quintets Nos. 1-2 Nancy Ambrose King (Oboe) / Joseph Ho-Pang Kam (Viola) / Natalia Khoma (Cello) / Solomia Soroka, violin / Eva Stern (Viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] Writing mainly in the style of Haydn and Mozart, he served as Kapellmeister in three major European courts, including that of the Emperor Franz I of Austria, to whom he was appointed court composer in 1818. |
EDWARD GREGSON
Gregson: Chamber Music - String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / etc Navarra Quartet, Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, Alison Teale, Rob Buckland [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Edward Gregson is a composer of international standing whose music has been performed, broadcast, and commercially recorded worldwide. Gregson is renowned for his concertos and music for band, but his chamber music reveals a more enquiring voice. |
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
Widor: Piano Trio, Op. 19 / Piano Quintet, Op. 7 New Budapest Quartet, with Ilona Prunyi [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] "Both works are played here with fluent spontaneity and plenty of spirit, and the recording is excellent. This is not great music, but admirers of Widor's organ music may find it a refreshing change." Penguin Guide |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintet No 7 / Sextet in C / Potpourri New Haydn Quartet with Sandor Papp (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] "Very good performances and first rate recording." Penguin Guide |
TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartets Vol 1 New Haydn Quartet, Budapest [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "This release is self-recommending" - Classics Today |
TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartets Vol. 2 New Haydn Quartet (Budapest) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jul/2008 ] Though Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky was a highly prolific and successful composer, he offered only six chamber works for publication. Three of these works are string quartets. This combination of instruments had long fascinated him, and before setting... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintets Nos. 3 and 4 New Haydn Quartet with Sandor Papp (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Jun/2004 ] Louis Spohr was accepted during his lifetime as one of the most important composers of early German Romanticism whose career encompassed the period from Beethoven's Op. 18 string quartets to Wagner's Tristan and whose compositions covered all the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Quartets New Zealand Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "These resourceful works by the 15-year-old Beethoven contain sufficient glimpses of his mature style to warrant the occasional airing. Good solid performances that manages to convey some of the music's boldness and charm." BBC Music Magazine, August... |
ZHOU LONG / TAKEMITSU / GAO PING / UNG / TAN DUN
Asian Music for String Quartet New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] This programme brings together aesthetic and musical elements of East and West. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] Brahms's two String Quartets, op.51, were the first he published but, completed in his 40th year, are very much mature masterpieces. He was very conscious of the tradition that lay behind the quartet genre, and the spirits of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 3 - Nos. 3 & String Quartet in E flat New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] Praised by Gramophone for the "deep feeling" of its playing on Volume 1 (8570001) the New Zealand String Quartet here completes its recording of all the Mendelssohn Quartets. |
KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs: String Quartet No. 5, 'American', Falling Canons & Falling Trio Delray String Quartet / Christopher O'Riley (piano) / Trio21 [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Kenneth Fuchs is one of America's leading composers and his music is performed worldwide. String Quartet No. 5 is an exciting, large-scale work that explores the contrapuntal possibilities of a single 'American' theme. |
EDVARD GRIEG / DAVID MONRAD JOHANSEN
Grieg / Johansen: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / String Quartet Op. 35 Oslo Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2005 ] "the Oslo String Quartet, a relatively new group, proves the best of the lot... they would easily sweep the board even at full price, on account of their sensitivity, tonal finesse and blend" - Penguin Guide |
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Oslo String Quartet
20Thc Norwegian String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Jan/2000 ] |
