More By Artist: The String-A-Longs
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JOSEPH BOULOGNE SAINT-GEORGES
Saint-Georges: 6 Concertante Quartets Arabella String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] A brilliant swordsman, athlete, violin virtuoso and composer, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges might well lay claim to being the most talented figure in an age of remarkable individuals. |
ELLIOTT CARTER
String Quartets 1 - 4 Arditti String Quartet [ Etcetera / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2008 ] Recommended in the recent book "1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die" this 2CD set collects the Arditti Quartet's recordings of the first 4 of Elliott Carter's string quartets. Carter will be 100 this year and is still composing.... |
GAVIN BRYARS
Three Viennese Dances Arditti String Quartet / Pascal Pongy : French horn / Charles Fullbrook : percus [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded February 1986 |
AULIS SALLINEN
Chamber Music I-VIII Arto Noras (cello), Alexis Roman (alto flute & flute), Nahoko Kinoshita (oboe), Gocho Prakov (clarinet) / Meta 4 String Quartet / etc [ Ondine / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2015 ] One of the internationally most well-known Finnish composers, AulisSallinen (b. 1935) celebrates his 80th birthday in 2015. As a tribute, Ondine is releasing the complete Chamber Music (I-VIII) series by the composer. |
FLORENCE PRICE / LEO SOWERBY
Price/Sowerby: Music for String Quartet Avalon String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Florence Price and Leo Sowerby were both prominent members of the Chicago music community in the 1930s and 1940s, and they are known to have respected each other's work. Most of Florence Price's compositions remained unpublished at her death, and her... |
RAVEL / JANACEK
String Quartets Avalon String Quartet [ Channel Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2001 ] |
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN WILLIBALD MICHL
Michl: Quartets Nos. 1-6 for Bassoon, 2 Violins and Cello Ben Hoadley (bassoon) / The Hall String Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Upon hearing a chamber piece by Joseph Michl in Munich in 1772 the English composer and music historian Charles Burney wrote, 'I hardly ever heard a composition that discovered more genius and invention.' |
MOZART
Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Clarinet Quintet (1938, 1946) Benny Goodman (clarinet) / George Szell (piano) / Budapest String Quartet [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] Restored from original undubbed pressings, this adventurous 1938 recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet brings together “the King of Swing”, Benny Goodman, and the great Budapest String Quartet. A firm favourite with the record-buying public, this... |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / WEBER / etc
Benny Goodman: Clarinet Classics Benny Goodman (clarinet) with Budapest String Quartet, Nadia Reisenberg (piano) & others [ Heritage / CD - released 23/Sep/2014 ] As a jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman had no peer. But his enthusiasm and virtuosity led him to interpret the most important works of the classical clarinet canon and to commission new works. This CD release gathers together some of his most notable... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: String Quintet in G, Op. 77 / Nocturne, Op. 40 / Scherzo from String Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97 Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] The Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet has become one of the best ensembles in its field, gaining a world-wide reputation. Here they give a sublime interpretation of Dvořák's String Quintet. |
BORODIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / GLAZUNOV / SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV
Great Russian String Quartets Borodin Quartet (Borodin, Tchaikovsky) / Shostakovich Quartet (Glazunov, Shostakovich) / American String Quartet (Prokofiev) [ Alto / 6 CD - released 11/Sep/2015 ] (They)…bring a special intensity to this repertoire as well as effortless technical address, and a tonal blend which gives their readings a strong claim on the collector's allegiance. |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartets,Volume 3 (Includes Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 in B flat major) Borodin String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] Beethoven's quartets contain some of the greatest, most enigmatic music ever written. They have been subjected to the closest scrutiny by the world's leading musicologists in an effort to ascertain exactly what the composer's intentions were when he... |
BORODIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / WEBERN / SCHUBERT / RACHMANINOV
Borodin Quartet: 60th Anniversary Borodin String Quartet [ Onyx Classics / CD - released 9/Jul/2005 ] "One of the finest string quartet discs I have heard for some time with all the music played con amore." (MusicWeb Jan 2007) |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartets, Vol 2 (String Quartet, Op. 59 No. 2; String Quartet, Op. 74 'Harp') Borodin String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/May/2004 ] 'This redoubtable Russian group plays with all the powerful, focused tone you'd expect and brings out the entire wealth of Beethoven's colour in these fiery performances.' Classic FM Magazine |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, volume 1 (Nos 7 & 9 Op 59) Borodin String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] Chandos is proud to present the first in its series of complete Beethoven String Quartets. The quartets, containing some of the greatest, most enigmatic music ever written, are in the capable hands of one of the world's finest ensembles. |
BUTTERWORTH / BRIDGE / PARRY
Works for Strings English String Orchestra, William Boughton [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] |
PHILIP GLASS
Complete String Quartets / Suite from BENT for string quartet Brooklyn Rider (string quartet) [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] Brooklyn Rider is a New York based string quartet quickly rising on the classical music scene. Its members frequently perform with Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble, the chamber orchestra The Knights, and have performances this season at Lincoln... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Late Quartets (13-15) & Piano Quintet D.667 'Trout' The Budapest String Quartet [ Praga Digitals / 2 CD - released 27/Oct/2017 ] Collected on one disc, this is the central part of the Schubert spirit legacy (1934-1962) of the Budapest's four last string quartets. Three are played on the Stradivari instruments from the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Collection and recorded live at... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ANTONIN DVORAK
Brahms/Dvorak: Piano Quintets Clifford Curzon (piano) / Budapest String Quartet [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Aug/2005 ] These recordings were the first and last of four that Curzon and the Budapest Quartet made in 1950-53 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Quartets, Vol. 1: Late String Quartets Calidore String Quartet [ Signum / 3 CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "[Their Beethoven performance's] were shockingly deep. I've never heard a quartet so young get so inside this ultimately inscrutable music" - LA Times The Calidore Quartet return to Signum Classics for the first installment of their Beethoven... |
