More By Artist: The String-A-Longs
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht / Schubert: Quintet Hollywood String Quartet [ Testament / CD - released 29/Nov/1993 ] "The Quintet, like all of Schubert's work, brims with lilting, irrepressible melody. The Hollywood gives a beautifully refined and polished performance." ClassicalNotes |
ROSS HARRIS (music) / VINCENT O'SULLIVAN (poems)
Harris / O'Sullivan: Making Light of Time Jenny Wollerman (soprano), Jian Liu (piano), New Zealand String Quartet [ Atoll / CD - released 3/Nov/2017 ] These three vocal works, the Abiding Tides, Songs for Beatrice: Making Light of Time and The Floating Bride, the Crimson Village, represent the fruits of a decade-long collaboration partnership between two of New Zealand's creative masters, Ross... |
JANACEK / SMETANA
String Quartets Jerusalem String Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] One might see them as the father and the heir. On the one hand, Bedrich Smetana, whose oeuvre is regarded as having founded the Czech national school; on the other, Leoš Janácek, his spiritual son (with Dvorák acting as the link between the two),... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Op 18 Jerusalem String Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] The Jerusalem Quartet record exclusively for Harmonia Mundi and their discs have been awarded with numerous prizes. Their recording of Haydn's String Quartets won the chamber category of the 2010 BBC Music Magazine Awards and the Diapason d'Or Arte |
DVORAK / SCHUMANN
Piano Quintets Jonathan Biss (piano) / Elias String Quartet [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Chamber |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK / ANTONIN DVORAK
Beethoven/Bartok/Dvorak: String Quartets Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / CD - released 21/May/2021 ] The Grammy Award-winning Juilliard String Quartet celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding with a new recording from the heart of the quartet repertoire, featuring works by Beethoven, Bartók and Dvořák. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / HENRI DUTILLEUX / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy/Ravel/Dutilleaux: String Quartets Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / CD - released 3/Jul/2009 ] "All three works are superbly performed, and while the Dutilleux is difficult (but very good) music, most recordings of the Debussy and Ravel offer no coupling at all." --David Hurwitz |
MOZART / WEBER
Mozart & Weber Quintets Julian Bliss (clarinet) / Carducci String Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Julian Bliss joins the Carducci String Quartet in performances of two seminal works - Weber's Clarinet Quintet in B flat Major, Op. 34 and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581. This is the second collaboration on disc between Bliss and the... |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / LUIGI BOCCHERINI / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Castelnuovo-Tedesco/Boccherini: Guitar Quintets: Piano Trios Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) / Tokyo String Quartet [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 20/May/1995 ] "A rich yet un-glitzy recording helps this intensely felt yet refined performance, and altogether the artists offer a memorable musical experience." Gramophone |
ERNO DOHNANYI / BOHUSLAV MARTINU / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Dohnanyi/Martinu/Schoenberg: Music for String Trio The Leopold String Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] "I can't imagine a more committed performance of Schoenberg's String Trio than the one offered here by the Leopold String Trio. It's thoroughly engaging, and hugely impressive from all three players." James Longstaffe |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1-6 Lindsay String Quartet [ Decca Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 23/Jul/2021 ] "These players have their own kind of distinction in this music and should not be missed." Gramophone, December 1989 |
BEDRICH SMETANA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Smetana: String Quartets {with works by Dvorak) Lindsay String Quartet [ ASV / CD - released 30/Jul/2012 ] The Lindsays' interpretation of Smetana's quartets, particularly the first, is known for its intensity and dramatic flair. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: String Quartets Vol.1 (Incls 'Three Divertimenti') Maggini String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "..well worth acquiring, for they exhibit an understanding of this by no means immediately comprehensible music…these two single CDs are strongly recommended." © 2012 International Record Review |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
String Quartets Vol.2 (Incls 'Simple Symphony, Op. 4') Maggini String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "[The Maggini Quartet's] account of the trickily allusive Third Quartet is, and will surely remain, hard to beat." --Review by Arnold Whittall, Gramophone Critics' choice, 1999 |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: String Quartet In E Minor / Piano Quintet In A Minor Maggini String Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "the Maggini Quartet impress with the luminous refinement and beguiling tonal beauty of their music-making" - Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fever Pitch Marin Alsop (leader), String Fever [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] Founded by Marin Alsop in 1981, String Fever was hailed for its remarkable versatility and unique blend of pop, jazz and classical repertoire. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: String Quartet in E minor Op.59 / String Quartet in C Op.59t The New Budapest String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Apr/1993 ] 'This is a top recommendation for all these works' (Classic CD) 'Highly recommendable' (Gramophone) |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: The complete string quartets New Vienna String quartet, with Evelyn Lear (soprano) [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/1999 ] "...the New Vienna Quartet emphasises its Austro-German lineage, bringing taciturnity then a deadpan humour to the earlier movements, with Evelyn Lear never less than alluring." Gramophone on the 2nd |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] Brahms's two String Quartets, op.51, were the first he published but, completed in his 40th year, are very much mature masterpieces. He was very conscious of the tradition that lay behind the quartet genre, and the spirits of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 'Rasumovsky' Quartets Opus 59 No's 2 & 3 New Zealand String Quartet [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 25/Jul/2002 ] Eagerly awaited recording by the New Zealand String Quartet |
