Cleveland String Quartet
Beethoven: Quartets 1,2 & 3 [ Telarc / CD - released 24/Nov/2003 ] |
Cleveland String Quartet
Beethoven: Quartets 4 & 5 [ Telarc / CD - released 24/Nov/2003 ] |
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... |
JENNIFER HIGDON
Higdon: Piano Trio / Voices / Impressions Cypress String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] Jennifer Higdon's philosophy in composing is simple: make sure the music communicates. It is her goal to write music that speaks not only to the seasoned professional performer, but also to audiences that come to this music with all types of... |
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... |
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,... |
Danish String Quartet
Keel Road [ ECM New Series / LP - 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... |
GAVIN BRYARS
Vita Nova David James (countertenor) / String Trio / The Hilliard Ensemble / Bryars [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded September 1993 |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cypresses Timothy Robinson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) / Delme String Quartet [ Somm / CD - released 11/Oct/2004 ] Sung in impeccable Czech - a lovely recording. |
J. S. BACH
The Art of Fugue The Delme String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/May/2005 ] "Music of extraordinary beauty and poise. Strongly recommended." (Fanfare) |
CESAR FRANCK
Roots - 21st Century Greek Music for Guitar Dimitris Soukaras (guitar) / Audentia Ensemble; L'Anima String Quartet and Ensemble [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] The music in this programme covers a spectrum of genres that have flourished in Greece in recent years, from jazz to contemporary avant-garde. These have all had a strong impact on guitarist Dimitris Soukaras's development as an artist, and in making... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / HENRY PURCELL
Britten / Purcell: String Quartets Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 24/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Chamber |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (op. 18, Nos. 2 and 5; Op. 59, No. 2; Op. 130; Op. 133) Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] For this second volume of Beethoven's string quartets, the Doric String Quartet has combined one middle period, one late, and two early quartets to create a programme that works on its own terms, as well as forming part of the complete cycle. |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 64 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "… Nos 5 and 6 are profoundly satisfying throughout, their first movements amply spacious, the minuets unpredictably and wittily timed, and the finales - high-class show-off music if ever there was - breathtaking in their mingled precision, delicacy... |