More By Artist: The String-A-Longs
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Zimro
A Broken Concert Tour: Music of the New Jewish School for Sextet Chen Halevi (clarinet), Vogler String Quartet, Jascha Nemtsov (piano) [ Hanssler / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] |
SAARIAHO / CAGE / MADERNA
In Due Tempi Cikada String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Behind the notes the Cikadas' deeply committed playing reveals glimpses of a dramatic personality that could only be Italian in its lyrical warmth. Riveting stuff." BBC Music Magazine |
FRANZ & CARL DOPPLER
Doppler: Flute Music Vol 12 Claudi Arimany (flute), Arts String Quartet [ Capriccio / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] This is the final volume in Cappricio's 12-album edition of Doppler's complete music for flute(s), including a number of arrangements. Flautist Claudi Arimany, who devised the project, presents works by composers that are dedicated to Franz Doppler,... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op. 44 / Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 (Rec 1951-1952) Clifford Curzon (piano) / Budapest String Quartet [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] The Budapest Quartet made four recordings with Curzon in 1950-53, the present two and the quintets of Brahms and Dvoøák. |
LOUIS SPOHR
String Quartets, Volume 15: String Quartets 19 & 22 Concertino String Quartet & New Budapest Quartet [ Marco Polo / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] Spohr was a prolific quartet composer, his body of work forming an important collection. His Quartet No. 19 is the fourth of his Quatuors brillants, chamber concertos designed to allow the first violinist, Spohr himself, to flaunt his virtuoso... |
MENDELSSOHN
String Quartets Vol 3 (Nos 3 & 5) The Coull String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] 'All in all, this disc, along with its companions ... becomes the clear first choice for this music' (Fanfare, USA) |
WUORINEN
Scherzo / First String Quartet / Viola Variations / Second Piano Quintet Curtis Macomber (violin) / Jesse Mills (violin) / Lois Martin (viola) / Fred Sherry (cello) / Peter Serkin (piano) / Brentano String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "In contrast to the city's minimalists, Wuorinen is a New York maximalist, a consummate wielder of rich, relentless polyphony, complex and speedily rhythmic textures, able to show each time that high modernism is not only alive and kicking, but a... |
BEETHOVEN
The Late String Quartets Cypress String Quartet [ Avie Records / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2016 ] The Cypress String Quartet completes their cycle of the genre's greatest oeuvre with a two-album set of Beethoven's six ground-breaking quartets, Op. 18, alongside a reissue of their previously self-released recording of the late quartets. For the... |
BENJAMIN LEES
String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 and 6 Cypress String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] The highly personal style of American composer Benjamin Lees lends his music the lofty grandeur and sardonic wit, not only of Shostakovich but also of the Cubist and Surrealist artists, all of whom he so admires. Lees, who also shares Britten's... |
Elena Ruehr
Ruehr: Six String Quartets The Cypress String Quartet / The Borromeo String Quartet / Stephen Salters (baritone) [ AVIE / 2 CD - released 17/Feb/2018 ] For Guggenheim Fellow composer Elena Ruehr the appeal of the string quartet lies in the ability of four instruments to express an infinite range of emotional possibilities, to communicate across time. Her six string quartets attest to her... |
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Dalgat String Ensemble/Melia
Myaskovsky:sinfonietta Op68/Sh [ Naxos / CD ] |
MARGARET BROUWER
Shattered Glass / Lonely Lake / Clarinet Quintet Daniel Silver (clarinet) & Sandra Simon (soprano) / Blue Streak Ensemble / Maia String Quartet / Panoramicos [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] Widely acclaimed for its lyricism, emotional power, striking musical imagery and fascinating sonorities, Margaret Brouwer's work has earned her numerous awards and a constant demand for new commissions. Shattered Glass is a musical kaleidoscope,... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FELIX MENDELSSOHN / J. S. BACH
Beethoven / Mendelssohn / Bach: Prism IV Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] "..the DSQ make compelling storytellers." Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Chamber |
Danish String Quartet
Keel Road [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] The Danish String Quartet's new album is a "retracing of musical pathways across the North Sea, a journey through the sounds of traditional music from Northern Europe, taking us from Denmark and Norway to the Faroe Islands, and to Ireland and... |
Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf [ ECM New Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] "This recording of sublime beauty consists of old hymns, such as Now Found is the Fairest of Roses (1732), and a variety folk songs, all exquisitely set for string quartet." AudAud Best of 2017 |
Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 22/Sep/2017 ] They are widely recognised as the most exciting young string quartet of the present moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising and impressive forays into the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Shostakovich/Bach: Prism I Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] For its third ECM release, the prize-winning Danish String Quartet inaugurates a series of five albums with the overarching title of Prism, in which the group will present one of Beethoven's late string quartets in the context of a related fugue by... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / ALFRED SCHNITTKE / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Schnittke/Bach - Prism II Danish String Quartet [ ECM / CD - released 13/Sep/2020 ] "A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven's introspection feels more unsettling than usual." BBC Music Chamber Choice November 2020 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Bartok/Bach - Prism III Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] "...they're thought-provoking, and often startlingly beautiful. And anyway, perhaps one shouldn't draw too close to the music." Gramophone |
BEETHOVEN / WEBERN / BACH
Prism V Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] The Danish String Quartet bring their highly acclaimed Prism project to its conclusion. In each volume of this series a particular Bach fugue is connected to a late Beethoven quartet which, in turn, is connected to a quartet by a later master: "A... |
