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GERSHWIN / BERNSTEIN / RODGERS / MORTIER
Summertime: Music For Clarinet Quartet The Clarinet Quartet Of The Belgian National Orchestra [ NAXOS / CD ] Terence Thompson's witty jazz suite City Scenes starts with a light-hearted Stroll in the City, delicately sketched. Blowing the Blues provides a leisurely interlude, before the cheerful and lively Hot Potato Boogie, a blues derivative, with its... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op. 44 / Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 (Rec 1951-1952) Clifford Curzon (piano) / Budapest String Quartet [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] The Budapest Quartet made four recordings with Curzon in 1950-53, the present two and the quintets of Brahms and Dvoøák. |
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ANTHONY BURGESS
Burgess: Complete Guitar Quartets Complete Guitar Quartets [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Composer and novelist, Anthony Burgess, was a unique creative artist whose dual mastery of music and literature resulted in a career strewn with an output of remarkable diversity. Burgess came into contact with the Aïghetta Guitar Quartet while... |
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JOHN CORIGLIANO
Corigliano: Snapshot-Circa 1909 / String Quartet No. 1 (with Friedman-String Quartet No. 2) Corigliano Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] "In so many ways this CD of first-class string quartets by American composers, teacher and pupil, yields many rewards, especially on repeated listening. I urge lovers of the medium to be brave and sample this wonderful disc, especially at Naxos's... |
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FRANCK
String Quartet in D major / Piano Quintet in F minor Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2009 ] "The Fine Arts Quartet… are at their very best in both slow movements, with Christina Ortiz matching their ebb and flow perfectly in the Quintet." BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 **** |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Mar/2013 ] "The performances could hardly be more finely attuned to the technical challenges, while the composer's own booklet-notes set the scene succinctly...As a 'feast for the senses', Whalley's music demonstrably has much to recommend it." Gramophone |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Piano Quintets Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] "Two magical, enchanting chamber works in alluring performances by the Fine Arts Quartet and Cristina Ortiz...magical." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2009) |
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WUORINEN
Scherzo / First String Quartet / Viola Variations / Second Piano Quintet Curtis Macomber (violin) / Jesse Mills (violin) / Lois Martin (viola) / Fred Sherry (cello) / Peter Serkin (piano) / Brentano String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "In contrast to the city's minimalists, Wuorinen is a New York maximalist, a consummate wielder of rich, relentless polyphony, complex and speedily rhythmic textures, able to show each time that high modernism is not only alive and kicking, but a... |
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BENJAMIN LEES
String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 and 6 Cypress String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] The highly personal style of American composer Benjamin Lees lends his music the lofty grandeur and sardonic wit, not only of Shostakovich but also of the Cubist and Surrealist artists, all of whom he so admires. Lees, who also shares Britten's... |
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Da Vinci Quartet
Loeffler:string Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] |
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet No. 1) Daniel Adni (piano) Young-Chang Cho, Alexander Ivashkin (cellos) Joel Marangella (oboe) Rainer Moog (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jan/2003 ] "The Piano Quartet...fares well in the Naxos performance...This alone is worth the price of the disc, but there is much else of value besides...the oboe Quartet and Viola Sonata should not be lightly dismissed." - BBC Music Mag. - Nov. 1996 |
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MARGARET BROUWER
Shattered Glass / Lonely Lake / Clarinet Quintet Daniel Silver (clarinet) & Sandra Simon (soprano) / Blue Streak Ensemble / Maia String Quartet / Panoramicos [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] Widely acclaimed for its lyricism, emotional power, striking musical imagery and fascinating sonorities, Margaret Brouwer's work has earned her numerous awards and a constant demand for new commissions. Shattered Glass is a musical kaleidoscope,... |
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Daniel/Fielding/Thompson
Dubugnon: Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2002 ] |
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HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Chamber Music [Incls String Quartet No. 3] Dante Quartet / Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] Herbert Howells' style, immediately recognisable for its long melodic lines, rhapsodic nature and rich harmonies, defined the sound of English cathedral music in the 20th century. His studies in London imbued his works with sophistication and a... |
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LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 Danubius Quartet, with Sandor Papp (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Apr/2002 ] |
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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. |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
The Best of Debussy (Incls Clair de Lune, Arabesque No 1 & The girl with the Flaxen Hair) Peter Nagy (piano) Klara Kormendi (piano) / Kodaly Quartet / Slovak Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Claude Debussy exercised widespread influence over later generations of composers, both in his native France and elsewhere. He was trained at the Paris Conservatoire, and decided there on a career as a composer rather than as a pianist, his original... |
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Dejan Terzic Quartet
Four For One [ Naxos Jazz / CD ] |
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CESAR FRANCK
Roots - 21st Century Greek Music for Guitar Dimitris Soukaras (guitar) / Audentia Ensemble; L'Anima String Quartet and Ensemble [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] The music in this programme covers a spectrum of genres that have flourished in Greece in recent years, from jazz to contemporary avant-garde. These have all had a strong impact on guitarist Dimitris Soukaras's development as an artist, and in making... |
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MALCOLM ARNOLD
The Best of Malcolm Arnold East Winds; English Piano Trio; Maggini Quartet; Raphael Wallfisch (cello); Carl Raven (saxophone); English Northern Philharmonia, etc [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Sir Malcolm Arnold was one of the most gifted British composers of his generation. His music communicates directly with listeners through its rhythmic vitality and brilliant orchestration, with melodies that are eloquent, memorable and catchy. |