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ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Clarinet Quintet / String Quartet No. 2 David Campbell (clarinet) / Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] Arthur Bliss, who was half-American on his father's side, studied at Cambridge with Charles Wood and also found in Edward Dent a stimulating mentor. |
ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 5 (Nos. 12, 13 & 14) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Although Australian by birth, Alfred Hill spent much of his youth in New Zealand before embarking on studies in Leipzig, where he met Brahms, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky. A prolific symphonist and operatic composer, he also wrote a sequence of seventeen... |
ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 6 (Nos. 15 - 17) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] Alfred Hill was the leading Australian-born composer of the Late Romantic era. During his studies in Leipzig from 1887 to 1891, he encountered luminaries such as Brahms, Dvořak, Tchaikovsky and Strauss. His 17 String Quartets, the first... |
ALFRED HILL
String Quartets, Vol. 2 (Nos. 4, 6 & 8) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "The recording quality once again is excellent and the playing committed. There's more to get one's teeth into with this volume of the quartets though I am keenly awaiting the volume containing a performance of No.11." (MusicWeb Dec 2008) |
ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 4 (Nos. 10, 11 & 'Life' Quintet) Dominion String Quartet with Richard Mapp (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] Alfred Hill was the doyen of Australasian composers, and his exploration of the string quartet demonstrates the range of his imagination. Both the Tenth and Eleventh quartets were written in 1935, but they offer richly differing affiliations. No. 10... |
W.A MOZART
Mozart: String Quartets (Complete), Vol. 1 Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/1993 ] Recorded: 4-8 January 1991 |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] "At Naxos price, readers who have so far fought shy of these quartets should give them a try and, like me, they may possibly find that this is eminently well-wrought and attractive music" (MusicWeb Feb 2007) |
BERNARD HERRMANN / DAVID DEL TREDICI
Clarinet Quintets Fine Arts Quartet / Michel Lethiec (Clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2016 ] The iciness and drama of his great film scores contrasts powerfully with the reserved and lyrical beauty of Bernard Herrmann's chamber music. Souvenir de Voyage was his final concert work, each of the three movements having roots in a different work... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quintets (Complete) Fine Arts Quartet (with Danilo Rossi, viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "So unfamiliar as this repertoire is, it repays the effort in getting to know it, and one can hardly imagine these works being given a more sympathetic reading." (MusicWeb Recording of the Year 2008) |
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 |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain / To a Poet / By Footpath and Stile Iain Burnside / Roderick Williams / Sacconi Quartet [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 15 / CD - released 3/Aug/2006 ] "Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Not only is he an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is - much over used word, but I can't see any... |
QUINCY PORTER
Porter: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 Ives Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] Quincy Porter was one of a diverse generation of American composers who played a significant role in shaping and directing American musical culture in the mid-twentieth century. |
ARTHUR FOOTE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Foote: Piano Quintet / String Quartets James Barbagallo (piano) Da Vinci Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2020 ] Foote received his first music lessons at the age of fourteen, eventually studying harmony with Stephen A. Emery at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets.Op.54 1-3 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Penguin Guide "The Kodaly players enter animatedly into the spirit of the music" Classic CD "Haydn's String Quartets by the Kodaly Quartet are wonderful" |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op.50 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 24/May/1998 ] "The Kodály Quartet are back to their finest form in Op. 50 and they are most naturally recorded. These are mellow performances, warm and polished, with perfect blending of timbre, yet refined detail." Penguin Guide Key Recording |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op77 Nos 1 & 2 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD ] "...typically honest, unadorned renderings." - Gramophone Magazine |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 64 Nos. 1-3 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] The string quartets of Opus 64 constitute a second set of six quartets for the violinist Johann Tost, who had led the second violins of Haydn's orchestra at Esterhaza from 1783 until his departure for Paris in 1788 |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 71 Nos. 1-3 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2007 ] "The Naxos recordings by the Kodály Quartet are outstanding in every way and would be highly recommendable even without their considerable price advantage. The performances are superbly shaped, naturally paced and alive; the playing is cultivated,... |
ALWYN / BAX / BERKELEY / BRITTEN / MOERAN / RAWSTHORNE / etc
British String Quartets Maggini Quartet, with David Campbell (clarinet), Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Naxos / 20 CD Box Set - released 4/Dec/2019 ] "Another British string quartet rarity from the Maggini Quartet. Fine performances of two superbly confident chamber works." Editor's Choice - Gramophone |
ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Oboe Quintet / Piano Quartet / Viola Sonata Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Oct/2006 ] "Excellent sound, detailed liner notes, and Naxos's competitive prices. What's not to like, here?" Fanfare, January/February 2004 |
