|
ALFRED HILL
String Quartets, Vol. 2 (Nos. 4, 6 & 8) Dominion String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "The recording quality once again is excellent and the playing committed. There's more to get one's teeth into with this volume of the quartets though I am keenly awaiting the volume containing a performance of No.11." (MusicWeb Dec 2008) |
|
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets (Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, January 2009) Doric String Quartet [ Wigmore Hall Live / CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] "The Dorics might look as if they are scarcely beyond their gap years, but their first commercial recording shows them to be musically fully matured... The Dorics give us a direct link to the composer's genial and touching inventiveness; and, indeed,... |
|
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Vol. 1 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] The Doric String Quartet is firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, receiving enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics around the globe. Celebrating their 25th anniversary, the Quartet here embarks on a... |
|
ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS / SAMUEL LONGMEIER
Kammermusik mit Klarinette [Chamber Music For Clarinet] Duo Kosmos / Zurich String Ensemble [ Doron / CD - released 10/Nov/2019 ] |
|
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Quartets Nos 2 & 3 Elias String Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] "The A major Quartet is, to my ears, the jewel of the set, and the Elias play it with profound tenderness." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2018 |
|
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: The 6 String Quartets Emerson String Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/1988 ] "Intense and passionate … one of the most exciting chamber music recordings of recent years" Gramophone |
|
JANACEK / MARTINU
Intimate Letters Emerson String Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The performances here have the sovereign control and the perfect weighting of each line in the musical argument that are the group's trademarks." (The Guardian) |
|
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / ALEXANDER BORODIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 / Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 Emerson String Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/1986 ] Recorded: April 1984 |
|
HINDEMITH / BERG / CHAUSSON / SCHOENBERG
Infinite Voyage Barbara Hannigan (soloist), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Emerson String Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "The Emersons come to [the Schoenberg] as if it were new, hot from the press, and in doing so they recreate the sense of inordinate extravagance that made early audiences so uneasy." Gramophone Award Nomination 2024 - Chamber |
|
FRANK BRIDGE / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bridge/Walton:String Quartet Endellion String Quartet [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/1991 ] "The Endellion Quartet keep the blend of lyricism and turbulence that makes Bridge so very English and expressionist in excellent balance." (Gramophone) |
|
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: String Quartets Op.54 Nos 1 - 3 Endellion String Quartet [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/1988 ] "the Endellion's playing is nearly always beyond reproach, and this contrasting array of Haydn's quartet styles and personalities is no exception. They bring out with very simply clarity all of Haydn's humour." (Gramophone) |
|
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: String Quartets Op.74 Nos 1 - 3 Endellion String Quartet [ Virgin Ultraviolet / CD - released 5/Nov/1990 ] "the Endellion's playing is nearly always beyond reproach, and this contrasting array of Haydn's quartet styles and personalities is no exception. They bring out with very simply clarity all of Haydn's humour." (Gramophone) |
|
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lyric Suite (with works by Wellesz & Zeisl) Renée Fleming (soprano) / Emerson String Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] This release unites on record for the first time America's reigning star soprano Renée Fleming and its premier string quartet, The Emersons, to take us on a journey into the twilight world of Vienna in the 1920s and 30s in music imbued with late... |
|
KAROLY GOLDMARK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Goldmark: String Quartet in B-flat major Op. 8 / String Quintet in A minor Op. 9 Fourth Dimension String Quartet [ ASV / CD - released 1/Sep/1999 ] "What an amazingly responsive, fine-tuned, and utterly flexible ensemble they are. A major addition to the chamber catalog." ClassicsToday 10/10 |
|
LEOS JANACEK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Janacek: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 [with Smetana - String QuartetNo. 1] Gabrieli String Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] "They have authority and imagination and they are as faithful to the score as I can judge … I admire the way they succeed in sustaining magic without inflating the rhetoric and over-emphasizing the bizarre." Gramophone |
|
GABRIEL PIERNE
Pierne: String Quintet (with Vierne - String Quartet) Goldner String Quartet, with Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Apr/2014 ] "The Goldner weigh every chord to perfection, and make the textures utterly transparent, while their partnership with Lane in the quintet is exemplary." (Guardian) |
|
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete / Concerto in D / etc Guildhall String Ensemble [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Jun/1990 ] Recorded June, 1988, at Forde Abbey, Dorset |
|
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Suite de Concert, Ballad, Spiritual for Piano Harold Wright (clarinet), Virginia Eskin (piano), Hawthorne String Quartet [ Alto / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] A collection of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor works |
|
GIDEON KLEIN / VIKTOR ULLMANN
Chamber Music from Theresienstadt [1941-1945] Hawthorne String Quartet, Virginia Eskin (piano) [ Channel Classics / CD ] Recorded at Doopsgezinde Kerk, Amsterdam, Holland, 17, 19, 20 January 1991. |
|
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / PAUL HINDEMITH / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE; Prokofiev:Hindemith/Walton: String Quartets Hollywood String Quartet [ Testament / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Recorded in Hollywood, Melrose Studio:1950 and 1951 |