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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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... |
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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),... |
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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 |
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DVORAK / SCHUMANN
Piano Quintets Jonathan Biss (piano) / Elias String Quartet [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Chamber |
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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 DvoĆák. |
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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 |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden' / String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 Juilliard String Quartet [ CBS Odyssey / CD - released 1/Nov/1983 ] Recorded 1979, 1978. |
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DVORAK / BARBER / SCHOENBERG / SCHUMANN / COPLAND / FRANCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Juilliard Quartet - 50 years Juilliard String Quartet, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Leonard Berstein & Jorge Bolet (piano), Harold Wright (clarinet) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD Box Set - released 18/Jun/1996 ] When William Schuman founded a string quartet at New York's Juilliard School in 1946, he envisaged an ensemble not only to teach the elite New York conservatory's students but also, in its own public performances, to "play the standard repertoire... |
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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... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 6 Julliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jun/1996 ] The Juilliard String Quartet was founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York by William Schuman and Robert Mann. Since its inception, it has been the quartet-in-residence at the Juilliard School. It has received numerous awards, including... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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JOHN HARBISON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Harbison: String Quartets 1 & 2 / 'November 19, 1828' for piano and string trio Lydian String Quartet, with Yehudi Wyner (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Jul/1992 ] Recorded At - Methuen Memorial Music Hall |