FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op.33 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2020 ] Composed in the summer and autumn of 1781, Haydn's Op. 33 Quartets were dedicated to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia and premiered on Christmas Day that year in the apartment of the Duke's wife, the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna. |
WALTON
String Quartets Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] This new release represents one of the comparatively rare recordings of the highly attractive string quartets by William Walton, one of England's finest composers. The works are performed by the Doric String Quartet, exclusive Chandos artists and... |
JANACEK / MARTINU
String Quartets Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] This new recording by the Doric String Quartet pays homage to the Czech chamber music of the 1920s, featuring string quartets by Janáček and Martinů. |
KORNGOLD
String Quartets Nos 1, 2 & 3 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "English Quartet superb exploring the chamber music of Hollywood Kapellmeister." Five Stars William Dart NZ Herald |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 13 & 14 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] "The Dorics have enormous flair for this kind of music, getting comfortably under the skin of music written by Schubert when he was about the same as their average age and displaying a similar degree of maturity and insight" (Gramophone) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Vol 1 [Op. 20] Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] "The musicians of the Doric String Quartet respond with imagination to each fresh idea, bringing into play a lightness of touch, much spirit and wit..they fill the two-disc set with affection for Haydn's inexhaustible creativity." Financial Times |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: String Quartets, Op. 41 Nos. 1-3 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Dec/2011 ] "Here's a disc that merits an especially big welcome...At last comes a strong challenger which brings together all three of these wonderful but so often misunderstood quartets." (BBC Music Disc of the Month December 2011) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 [Op. 76] Doric String Quartet [ CHANDOS / 2 CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] "No quartet in my experience has employed such a wide range of colour and dynamics in this music, often with revelatory results…the Doric's daring, imaginative and technically superb performances demand to be heard" (Gramophone) |
KORNGOLD
String Sextet & Piano Quintet Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] "The Quintet opens with one of those glorious Korngoldian melodies of the type that would later translate into music for the silver screen...The Sextet is given an equally vigorous and stylish reading with passages of great tenderness" (Gramophone) |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Symphony No. 1 / Introduction and Allegro for strings Doric String Quartet / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2017 ] This new Elgar surround-sound recording brings together some of Chandos' finest exclusive British artists for the first time. The Doric String Quartet - highly praised for its series of Haydn and Schubert quartets - joins the BBC Symphony... |
JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music / Absolute Jest Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] "...a magnificent reading of Naïve and Sentimental Music…with the balance of pace and introspection skilfully managed by Oundjian." Recording of the Month BBC Music July 2018 |
Eder String Quartet
Mozart:string Quartets [ Naxos / CD ] |
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Sir Arthur Bliss: the Decca Originals Eileen Joyce (piano) Alfredo Campoli (violin) Griller Quartet (string quartet), Colin Hampton (cello), Philip Burton (viola) / Sir Arthur Bliss, Muir [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] "This is a convenient, well-transferred compilation of some of the finest performances of music by a still-underrated composer. Bliss's version of the Colour Symphony is better paced than many of its successors." BBC Music |
EMILY HOWARD
Howard: Magnetite Elias String Quartet, scapegoat, Alexandra Dariescu (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Gourlay (conductor), Lucy Goddard (mezzo-s [ NMC / CD - released 16/Jan/2017 ] Emily Howard's degree in maths and computer science has informed her work, but, as she stresses, "I'm a composer, not a mathematician. |
ARTHUR FARWELL
Farwell: Songs, Choral and Piano Works (America's Neglected Composer) Emanuele ArciuliI (piano), Dakota String Quartet, University of Texas Chamber Singers [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Arthur Farwell has been called 'the most neglected composer in [American musical] history.' Hounded by accusations of 'cultural appropriation,' he has posthumously fallen prey to changing notions of cultural authenticity. As the leader of the... |
W. A. MOZART
Prussian Quartets Emerson String Quartet [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "the elegant flow of the musicians' fingers brings both pleasures and perils. As always, there's considerable comfort in the certainty of pitch, the warm colours, the general air of civilised ease, matched to music of high artistry" (The Times) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The String Quartets (Complete) Emerson String Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon / 5 CD - released 20/May/2006 ] Winner Gramophone Awards 2000 - Chamber! |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SHOSTAKOVICH / HAYDN / etc
The Emerson String Quartet: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Emerson String Quartet, with Carol Wincenc (flute), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Thomas Hampson (baritone) & Menahem Pressler (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 52 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2019 ] This 52 CD collection charts the New York-based ensemble's musical breadth, encompassing virtually all of the important repertoire for their formation, and features complete cycles by Shostakovich, Beethoven and Bartók; plus String Quartets by Haydn,... |
MARK NOWAKOWSKI
Nowakowski: Blood Forgotten & String Quartet Nos 1 & 2 Emily Ondradek-Peterson (violin) / Voxare String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] The people of Poland have lived through often impossible conditions over the last three centuries, and this album is Polish-American composer Mark Nowakowski's tribute to their spirit of survival. Songs of Forgiveness is both a meditation on anger... |
Emperor String Quartet
Martinu: String Quartets 3/4/5 [ Bis / CD - released 2/Aug/2004 ] |