DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets Vol 1: String Quartets Nos. 4, 6, and 7 Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD ] "Quite apart from its cost, this series is emerging as one of the most competitive of the newer versions of this powerful music. The recorded sound is superior and offers a serious challenge." Penguin Guide |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets Vol 4: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 12 Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] "these performances have compelling concentration throughout" - Penguin Guide |
W.A. MOZART
String Quartets Vol 2: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 14 Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] "These are open-hearted, likeable performances." - Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
String Quartets Vol. 4 (K. 136, K. 137, K. 138, K. 465) Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2011 ] "Excellent value at super-bargain price..... the whole work has a pleasing glow as regards both interpretation and sound." (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
String Quartets Vol. 6 (K. 172, K. 173 7 K. 575 "Prussian") Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2011 ] "Most recommendable." (Gramophone) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets Vol 6: Nos 10, 11 & 13 Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "intonation is impeccable, their ensemble generally flawless, and both individually and collectively they produce an attractive sound" - Fanfare |
W.A. MOZART
String Quintets Vol 1: String Quintets, K. 174 and K. 155 Eder Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] "These are open-hearted, likeable performances." - Gramophone |
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HOWARD BLAKE
Spieltrieb / String Trio Edinburgh Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] "His music for the 1986 film A Month In The Country, about recovering Great War casualties, is gently pastoral until darkness falls with the mix of pathos and terror in the third movement Elegy...There are affinities with, variously, Arvo Pärt,... |
ARTHUR FARWELL
Farwell: Songs, Choral and Piano Works (America's Neglected Composer) Emanuele ArciuliI (piano), Dakota String Quartet, University of Texas Chamber Singers [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Arthur Farwell has been called 'the most neglected composer in [American musical] history.' Hounded by accusations of 'cultural appropriation,' he has posthumously fallen prey to changing notions of cultural authenticity. As the leader of the... |
MARK NOWAKOWSKI
Nowakowski: Blood Forgotten & String Quartet Nos 1 & 2 Emily Ondradek-Peterson (violin) / Voxare String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] The people of Poland have lived through often impossible conditions over the last three centuries, and this album is Polish-American composer Mark Nowakowski's tribute to their spirit of survival. Songs of Forgiveness is both a meditation on anger... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / PUCCINI / VERDI
Works for String Quartet Ensō String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2015 ] The standard of string quartet playing has never been higher but even in such a crowded field it strikes me that the Ensō Quartet are carving out a reputation for themselves as being amongst the very finest currently performing." MusicWeb |
PLEYEL
String Quartets, Op. 2, Nos. 1-3 Enso Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "Lovers of Haydn’s and Mozart’s quartet music, and indeed lovers of string quartet music in general, should not miss the opportunity to hear this fascinating disc" (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
PLEYEL
String Quartets-Op. 2, Nos. 4-6 Enso Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] The string quartets of Ignaz Pleyel occupy a central place in his prolific musical output. Pleyel’s interest in the medium is unsurprising given that he studied with Joseph Haydn for several years in the 1770s... |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: String Quartets, Volume 2 Escher String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Nomination 2015 - Chamber |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: String Quartets, Volume 1 Escher String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The beauty and ironic playfulness of the Third Quartet comes from the cool austere language of Weimar's 'New Objectivity'. The Fourth Quartet was amongst the last of Zemlinsky's significant works, composed as a moving tribute to his friend Alban Berg |
FLORIAN ROSS
Ross: Achitexture - Music for Jazz Quartet and Wind Ensemble The Event Wind Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Described as a 'musical explorer', Florian Ross effortlessly spans the realms of improvised and composed jazz in a dazzling variety of formats, with music that comes from a deep synthesis of heart and mind. Architexture is Ross's response in music to... |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: 5 Novelettes / String Quintet in A Major Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] "...brilliant performances, warmly understanding as well as polished, and very well recorded in New York." Penguin Guide |
EVANS / GLASS / ANTHEIL / HERRMANN
String Quartets Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This recording gathers four string quartets by American composers who are widely divergent in style and manner, and who have made a distinctive and personal contribution to this endlessly re-inventive format. Ralph Evans is more familiar as a... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "Deserving more frequent performances than they receive, Saint-Saëns's two string quartets find persuasive champions in the Fine Arts Quartet...the influences are refracted through Saint-Saëns's own lyrical and harmonic prism, and each work is as... |