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ARNOLD BAX / FRANK BRIDGE
Bax/Bridge: Piano Quintets Ashley Wass (piano) The Tippett Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Exceptional performances of two outstanding British chamber works. The Bax work is epic in scope, tumultuous and wild; lyrical and nostalgic. Bridge's early lyrical yet occasionally turbulent Quintet includes some gorgeous melodies." MusicWeb |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintet No. 7 / String Sextet, Op. 140 / Potpourri Attila Falvay (violin) Sandor Papp (viola) Tamas Varga (cello) / New Haydn Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] Louis Spohr was accepted during his lifetime as one of the most important composers of early German Romanticism whose compositions covered all the major genres of that era. |
TCHAIKOVSKY / BALAKIREV / GLAZUNOV
Arrangements for 2 Pianos 8 Hands Aurora Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] The following works were written for two pianos eight hands by the composers themselves, with the exception of Tschaikovsky's Italian Capriccio, which is a transcription by his colleague Eduard Langer. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets Vol. 2 - Nos. 1 & 4 / Quartet in E Flat Major Aurora Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2013 ] "An attractive coupling vivaciously and expertly played." (Liverpool Daily Post) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets Vol. 3 - Nos. 2 & 5 / Scherzo Op. 81, No. Aurora Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Apr/1994 ] "At Naxos price, the new Aurora set of Mendelssohn's complete music for string quartet is a genuine bargain. The performances have a natural Mendelssohnian charm and elegance. The recording is first class." Penguin Guide |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets Vol 1 - Nos. 3 & 6 / Capriccio Op. 81, No. 3 Aurora Quartet [ Naxos / CD ] "At Naxos price, the new Aurora set of Mendelssohn's complete music for string quartet is a genuine bargain. The performances have a natural Mendelssohnian charm and elegance. The recording is first class." Penguin Guide |
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Aurora Quartet
Music For 2 Pianos, 8 Hands [ Naxos / CD ] |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Violin Concerto Nos. 1 and 3 / 5 Night-Pieces Aurora Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] "The playing indeed is unfailingly eloquent and the orchestra under Lyndon-Gee plays with considerable power and command. No problems with the well balanced recording either." (MusicWeb September 2006) |
FLORENCE PRICE / LEO SOWERBY
Price/Sowerby: Music for String Quartet Avalon String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Florence Price and Leo Sowerby were both prominent members of the Chicago music community in the 1930s and 1940s, and they are known to have respected each other's work. Most of Florence Price's compositions remained unpublished at her death, and her... |
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Aviv Quartet
Hoffmeister: String Quartets [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] |
SCHULHOFF
Music for String Quartet Aviv Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Largely forgotten in the decades after his death, the wide-ranging output of the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff has come to much greater prominence over the last quarter-century. The music featured here dates from the mid-1920s, a productive period... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quintet, D. 956 / String Trio, D. 581 Aviv Quartet, with Amit Peled (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2020 ] Schubert's String Trio was modeled after the example of Beethoven, and its transparent textures, Classical structure and fine interplay are capped by a charming Rondo finale. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 / Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 Jozsef Balogh (clarinet), Jeno Jando (piano), Csaba Onczay (cello) / Danubius Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] "This Brahms Quintet projects all the virtuosity and Weltschmerz one could want." (Los Angeles Times) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No. 2 & 3 Bartholdy Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "performances are well prepared, fluent" - Fanfare |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Op. 110 / Piano Quartet No. 1 Bartholdy Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] "The string players are always fluent and show a light-hearted vivacity in Mendelssohn's scherzo's" - Penguin Guide |
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN WILLIBALD MICHL
Michl: Quartets Nos. 1-6 for Bassoon, 2 Violins and Cello Ben Hoadley (bassoon) / The Hall String Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Upon hearing a chamber piece by Joseph Michl in Munich in 1772 the English composer and music historian Charles Burney wrote, 'I hardly ever heard a composition that discovered more genius and invention.' |
MOZART
Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Clarinet Quintet (1938, 1946) Benny Goodman (clarinet) / George Szell (piano) / Budapest String Quartet [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] Restored from original undubbed pressings, this adventurous 1938 recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet brings together “the King of Swing”, Benny Goodman, and the great Budapest String Quartet. A firm favourite with the record-buying public, this... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 Blair Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] "Collectors really need look no further" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Shostakovich/Schnittke: Piano Quintets Boris Berman (piano) / Vermeer Quartet. [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2003 ] "Boris Berman and the Vermeer Quartet prove to be extremely sensitive to the emotional demands of each work, giving highly accomplished and committed performances in adequate, if somewhat studio-bound sound." - Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine,... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet / String Quartet No.3 Boris Rener (clarinet) / Quatuor Ludwig [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2002 ] "effective and touching contrasts of mood and idiom.." -Michael Jameson |
