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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos. 4-6 Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "The Emperor Quartets and the Sunrise Quartets ...receive performances of exceptional insight and brilliance...and the Naxos recordings too provide superb sound quality throughout." - BBC Music Magazine - Summer Special |
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 |
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) |
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,... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: String Quartets Vol.1 (Incls 'Three Divertimenti') Maggini String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "..well worth acquiring, for they exhibit an understanding of this by no means immediately comprehensible music…these two single CDs are strongly recommended." © 2012 International Record Review |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
String Quartets Vol.2 (Incls 'Simple Symphony, Op. 4') Maggini String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "[The Maggini Quartet's] account of the trickily allusive Third Quartet is, and will surely remain, hard to beat." --Review by Arnold Whittall, Gramophone Critics' choice, 1999 |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: String Quartet In E Minor / Piano Quintet In A Minor Maggini String Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "the Maggini Quartet impress with the luminous refinement and beguiling tonal beauty of their music-making" - Gramophone |
FRANK BRIDGE
Bridge: Phantasy / String Quartets Nos. 2 and 4 Martin Roscoe (piano) / Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Apr/2005 ] "The Magginis complete their Bridge cycle in distinguished style" - Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month May 2005 |
CHARLES WUORINEN
Tashi / Percussion Quartet / Fortune New Jersey Percussion Ensemble / The Group for Contemporary Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] Charles Wuorinen writes virtuosic music for virtuoso performers. He has a profound desire to engage with the listener and with sympathetic performers, and essential to this engagement is a spirit of adventure and fun. |
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... |
DOUGLAS LILBURN
Lilburn: String Quartet in E Minor / Phantasy Quartet / Canzonettas New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Feb/2015 ] "the music is well worth hearing especially in performances as convincing as these. A useful addition to the discography of a still under-appreciated composer." (MusicWeb March 2015) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1, 4, 6 New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] "Three cheers for all concerned! This excellent quartet, recorded in the ideal acoustic setting of Holy Martyr's Church in Bradford, Ontario comes across as a symphonically rich group with tight ensemble, perfect intonation and a pulsing energy most... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 - Nos. 2 & 5 New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "The New Zealand Quartet clearly love this music, and their strong sense of internal balance allows them to bring out many telling details that often go unnoticed…" Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 |
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Oslo String Quartet
Grieg:string Quartets [ Naxos / CD ] |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: String Quartets, Vol. 1 Oslo String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2005 ] "Naxos 's sound is immediate, well detailed and free from oppressive closeness." Hi Fi News & Record Review |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartet Op. 51 Nos. 1 and 2 Quatuor Ludwig [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg in 1833, the son of a double-bass player and his much older wife, a seamstress. His childhood was spent in relative poverty, and his early studies in music, for which he showed a natural aptitude, developed his... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler arr. Schoenberg: Songs [Lieder] Roderick Williams (baritone) Susan Platts (mezzo-soprano) & Charles Reid (tenor) / Attacca Quartet & Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, JoAnn Fal [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] Arnold Schoenberg founded the Society for Private Musical Performances in 1918 to perform contemporary music from 'Mahler to the present'. Mahler had been an early supporter of Schoenberg's music, and Schoenberg repaid the favour by arranging... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 Sara Jakubiak (soprano) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Mary Phillips (mezzo) Laura Garritson (piano) Biava Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "All of this is immensely praiseworthy… for the many novelties which they include, and for the way in which they demonstrate the range and quality of Ives' songs." --Review by John Sheppard, MusicWeb International |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Stabat mater / String Quartet, G. 234 / String Quintet, G. 348 Sarasa Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] "a disc that is warmly recommended both to those who admire Boccherini as much as I do and to those who have yet to discover just what an interesting composer he is." MusicWeb recommended June 2022 |
