More By Artist: The String-A-Longs
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ANDREAS ROMBERG / ROBERT FUCHS / CHARLES Villiers STANFORD
Romberg/Fuchs/Stanford: Clarinet Quintets Thea King (clarinet) / the Britten String Quartet [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 6/Jun/2001 ] "There's plenty of lively, affectionate musicianship in these performances - all warmly and intimately recorded." ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Aug 2001) |
HOWELLS / COOKE / McCONCHY / FRANKEL / HOLBROOKE
English Clarinet Quintets Thea King (clarinet) The Britten String Quartet [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 24/Mar/2003 ] 'Yet another super disc from this company. Thea King is no stranger to Hyperion but I think this may be her best disc to date for them. [The Frankel] is a masterpiece pure and simple and anyone who tells you different must be deaf' (Tempo) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tokyo String Quartet plays Beethoven [9 CD set] Tokyo String Quartet [ Sony Classical Masters / 9 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "I doubt whether quartet playing comes much better than in this Tokyo set of the Op. 18. Quite frankly I don't think that you can go far wrong with this set: the playing is unfailingly alive, sensitive and poised." (Gramophone) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: String Quartets Nos 9 & 13 Tokyo String Quartet [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 10/Apr/1988 ] "Right from the start you know that the Tokyo Quartet's will be a dramatic, fiery reading: there's that hair-raising initial attack, with subsequent loud/soft contrasts powerfully underlined." (Gramophone) |
ARTHUR-VINCENT LOURIE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lourie: 3 String Qaurtets / Duo for violin and viola Utrecht String Quartet [ ASV / CD - released 21/Apr/1997 ] "These are relatively youthful quartets, all written before 1927. To me, they fit the Modern mould of these times although the two long slow movements of the first quartet surprised me." jhredguitar |
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL
Vanhal: Flute Quartets, Op. 7, Nos. 2, 3, 6 Uwe Grodd (flute) / Janaki String Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "Fortunately the performances and each of the three quartets prove attractive. The players of the Janaki String Trio and flautist Uwe Grodd play on modern instruments and do so with deft sensitivity" (MusicWeb April 2007) |
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HOLST / KHACHATURIAN / GLINKA / PROKOFIEV / ORFF / RACHMANINOV / etc
Classical Heat: music to warm you up [incls 'The Planets', 'Ride of the Valkyries', Carmina Burana & Ritual Fire Dance] Royal Scottish National Orchestra / National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine / Maggini String Qtet / Maria Kliegel / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / etc [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2009 ] Over two and a half hours of music to warm you up! |
JUDITH LANG ZAIMONT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Zaimont: Tale Of Abram & Isaac / Sacred Service Various Artists incls James Maddalena (baritone), Margaret Kohler (soprano), Everest String Quartet, Samuel Adler, Frances Lucey (soprano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "This is one of the most consistently rewarding of the fascinating Milken Archive series. So much so that it leaves one wanting to hear more" MusicWeb |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Opus 18 - Allegri String Quartet [ Vivat / CD - released 10/Jun/2013 ] |
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Half String
Maps For Sleep (2LP) [ Captured Tracks / 2 LP - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
Incredible String Band
U [ BGO Records / CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] Originally a double album released by Elektra Records in 1970. Recorded in a hectic 48 hours by long-time producer Joe Boyd, 'U' is an eclectic mix of musical styles as featured in the band's stage show of the same name. The show had not been a... |
Rahim Alhaj
Letters from Iraq Rahim Alhaj Oud and String Quintet [ Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / CD - released 1/Jun/2023 ] Letters from Iraq expresses the love and pain of lives lived by the people of war-torn Iraq. Actual mailed letters and their stories are transposed into eight gripping programmatic compositions by Iraqi-American composer and oud player, Rahim AlHaj... |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Piano Concerto / 5 Aphorisms / Gogol Suite Alessandro Deljavan (piano) / St. Petersburg String Soloists, Alexander Dmitriev [ Piano Classics / CD - released 28/Nov/2014 ] To commemorate the 80th birthday of Alfred Schnittke (1934‐1998) Russian pianist Denys Proshayev made a new recording of Schnittke's Concerto for Piano & Strings, the 5 Aphorisms for piano solo, and the Gogol Suite for piano 4‐hands. Schnittke's... |
ANTHONY RITCHIE
Ritchie: Octopus Alexa Still (flute) / The Nevine String Quartet / Amici Ensemble [ Atoll Records / CD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] It is unusual to have one composers' works comprise an entire programme and probably even harder to pull it off while keeping the audience's attention. (Auckland Chamber Orchestra Concert) |
FRANCK / LISZT / DEBUSSY / SASTRE
Piano Laureate Recital Alexander Koryakin (piano) / Bretón String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Alexander Koryakin, winner of the 2019 Jaén Prize International Piano Competition, has selected two perfectly paired masterpieces for his first Naxos recording. |
FRANZ LISZT / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor / Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor Angel Stanislav Wang (piano), with the Breton String Quartet [ Naxos Piano Laureate series / CD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Angel Stanislav Wang, winner of the 63rd Jaén Prize International Piano Competition in 2022, presents his Naxos debut recital with a selection of works he performed during the competition. |
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Allegri String Quartet
Sirmen: 6 String Quartets [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] |
WOLF / GRIEG / JANACEK
Italienische Serenade, String Quartet in G minor, String Quartet No. 2 Amphion String Quartet [ Nimbus Alliance / CD - released 21/Aug/2015 ] Hailed for its "precision, assertiveness and vigor" (The New York Times), its "gripping intensity" and "suspenseful and virtuoso playing" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and for a "hair-raising performance (Strad Magazine), the Amphion String Quartet... |
JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Vol. 2 Amsterdam String Quartet [ Channel Classics SACD / SACD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] The second installment in the series of Joseph Haydn's remarkable cycle of 68 string quartets, performed by "one of today's leading period instrument string quartets" . . . |
Anders Jormin (double-bass) with Lena Willemark (voice, fiddle and viola) Karin Nakagawa (25-string koto)
Trees Of Light [ ECM / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Anders Jormin's new Swedish-Japanese project returns the highly distinctive voice and fiddle of Lena Willemark to ECM (her first appearance on the label in more than a decade), and introduces koto player Karin Nakagawa. In their collaborative music... |
