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GEORGE ENESCU
Enescu: Piano Quintet in D major / Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 (arr. piano & string quintet) Fine Arts Quartet, Alexander Bickard (double bass), Gisele Witkowski & Fabio Witkowski (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] It was in Paris just before the end of the 19th century that George Enescu began to compose prolifically, but it is only in recent years that a number of these scores have emerged. The Piano Quintet in D major is one such work, lost for decades, but... |
BEETHOVEN
String Quintets, Opp. 29 and 104 / Fugue, Op. 137 Fine Arts Quartet / Gil Sharon (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] One of the best-kept secrets of chamber music, Beethoven's String Quintet in C major, Op. 29, was written between the well-known 'early' and 'middle' string quartets. This strangely neglected masterpiece of startling originality is coupled here with... |
GLAZUNOV
5 Novelettes / String Quintet in A major Fine Arts Quartet / Nathaniel Rosen (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Apr/2007 ] Genial Glazunovians will enjoy the wares on offer. |
KREISLER / ZIMBALIST / YSAYE
Kreisler and Zimbalist: String Quartets Fine Arts Quartet / Philharmonic Orchestra of Europe, Otis Klöber [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] The Fine Arts Quartet rise with aplomb to [the Zimbalist's] many interpretative and technical challenges, sustaining a glorious richness of tone. |
ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvořák: Bagatelles / String Quartet No. 2 / Rondo Fine Arts Quartet, Ryoko Morooka (harmonium), Stepan Simonian (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Antonín Dvořák is revered as one of the greatest composers of late 19th-century Romanticism. He is celebrated for the kind of poignant melodies redolent of Czech folk music found in the utterly charming Bagatelles and Rondo - the haunting tunes and... |
BRUCKNER
String Quintet in F major / String Quartet in C Fine Arts Quartet with Gil Sharon, viola [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] Anton Bruckner's String Quintet in F major was composed at the suggestion of the famous Viennese violinist Joseph Hellmesberger. |
LEFANU
Cancion de la Luna / String Quartet No. 2 / Clarinet Concertino Fiona Cross (clarinet) Nicholas Clapton (counter-tenor) / Goldberg Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] "This music needs and has received an excellent recording. The venue furnishes one of the best acoustics I have heard for contemporary music for some considerable time. It should be used more often." -- Gary Higginson |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 5, "Emperor" (arr. for piano and string quintet) Hanna Shybayeva (piano) / Animato String Quartet, with Bas Vliegenthart (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Ignaz Lachner's superb arrangements of Mozart's piano concertos are well known, but his brother Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Beethoven's concertos are a rarity, though equally as valuable. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral Pieces / Cello Concerto / Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 (orch. Schoenberg) Fred Sherry (Cello) / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft (Conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] In 1933, Schoenberg transcribed for cello a harpsichord concerto by the baroque composer Matthias Monn (1717-50). He dedicated his arrangement to Pablo Casals, whom he had met in Vienna, but Casals considered it too demanding. |
SCHOENBERG
Concerto for String Quartet / The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15 Fred Sherry Quartet / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 2 / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "When you consider that this disc gives almost eighty minutes of music, including a rarely performed work in what Robert Craft describes as an unmatched performance, plus three other pieces and an interview, all for a super-budget price then it is... |
SCHOENBERG
String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4 Fred Sherry String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The energy and eloquence of Fred Sherry and his colleagues ensure that the effect is never merely strenuous, never turgid. Though often aggressive, the music dances and sings" Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2010 |
LUDWIG THUILLE
Sextet / Piano Quintet Gianluca Luisi (piano) / Gigli Quartet / Chantily Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] One of the leading members of the Munich School, most famously represented by Richard Strauss, Ludwig Thuille was a prolific composer whose Sextet today remains the best known of his many chamber works. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Brahms: Piano Quintet Glenn Gould (piano) / Montreal String Quartet / Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Glenn Gould played Beethoven's piano concertos from the beginning of his short concert career, this recording being made when he was 24, the same age as the composer when he wrote his Piano Concerto No. 2. |
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Golden Gate Quartet
Gospel Train [ Naxos Gospel Legends / CD - released 3/May/2004 ] |
HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Goldmund Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] Joseph Haydn claimed to have discovered the string quartet form by accident. His Op. 1, No. 1 has the cheerful five-movement form of a Divertimento, while the glorious and harmonically daring Op. 77, No. 1 was among the last he completed in the... |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Szymanowski: String Quartets / Stravinsky: Concertino Goldner String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "The Goldner String Quarter of Australia, offer strongly characterised readings." - The Irish Times (Dublin) |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Piano Trio No. 2 / Piano Quartet No. 1 Gould Piano Trio, with David Adams (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Apr/2015 ] 'It's more than three years since the previous Stanford volume from this superb group: they clearly love this music, and it's a joyous listen to place alongside its equally fine predecessors.' Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2015 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: String Qrts.1 & 2 / Cello sonata Aurora String Quartet, with Michael Grebanier (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "Aurora Quartet gives well-moulded performances." BBC Music Magazine |
CHARLES WUORINEN
Wuorinen: String Sextet / String Quartet No. 2 / Piano Quintet / Divertimento Group for Contemporary Music / Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society / Tashi [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] "If you are up for a challenge then you will certainly find plenty to spar with on this disc" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
MORTON FELDMAN
String Quartet (1979) The Group For Contemporary Music [ NAXOS / CD ] "Morton Feldman's mind worked in a manner unlike that of any other composer. This fact alone makes him important and his music riveting." --Review by Phillip Scott, Fanfare |
