Frankfurt String Sextet
Koessler:string Quintet/Sextet [ Cpo / CD - released 2/Jul/2007 ] |
SCHOENBERG
String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4 Fred Sherry String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The energy and eloquence of Fred Sherry and his colleagues ensure that the effect is never merely strenuous, never turgid. Though often aggressive, the music dances and sings" Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2010 |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 [world premiere recordings] Fumiko Shiraga (piano) / Bremen String Soloists [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2000 ] Fumiko Shiraga was born in Tokyo and has lived in Germany since she was a child. She studied under Detlef Kraus, Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr, Malgorzata Bator and Vladimir Krainev at the Colleges of Music in Essen, Detmold and Hanover. |
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1 - 3 / Souvenir de Florence Gabrieli String Quartet / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] "the Gabrielis give a finely conceived performance, producing well-blended tonal quality" Penguin Guide |
FREDERICK DELIUS / JEAN SIBELIUS
Delius & Sibelius: String Quartets George Isaac (cello), Martin Jones (piano) / Fitzwilliam String Quartet [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "Powerhouse performances of three little known works" MusicWeb |
MIRTO / KROGSETH
Norwegian Memories / Viking Concerto Giorgio Mirto (guitar) / Florence String Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Giorgio Mirto follows in a long and distinguished line of guitarist-composers stretching back to his fellow Italian Mauro Giuliani, and he is justifiably a regular contributor to the catalogue of Brilliant Classics, playing both the classic (mostly... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Brahms: Piano Quintet Glenn Gould (piano) / Montreal String Quartet / Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Glenn Gould played Beethoven's piano concertos from the beginning of his short concert career, this recording being made when he was 24, the same age as the composer when he wrote his Piano Concerto No. 2. |
FRANK BRIDGE
Piano Quintet, String Quartet & Idylls Goldner String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] "Powerful, committed performances that illuminate Frank Bridge's multi-faceted mastery" (Disc of the Month BBC Music Magazine) |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Szymanowski: String Quartets / Stravinsky: Concertino Goldner String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "The Goldner String Quarter of Australia, offer strongly characterised readings." - The Irish Times (Dublin) |
ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Piano Quintet / String Quartet No. 2 / Cello sonata Goldner String Quartet / Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Feb/2017 ] Russia in the nineteenth century had little need for chamber music-no Parisian-style competitive quartetting here. But out of this very isolation came a small, but nonetheless mighty, handful of works: those by Borodin are among the finest. |
BLOCH
Piano Quintets Goldner String Quartet / Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] 'Piers Lane and the Goldners convey both the frenzy and the languor of Bloch's music' (BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Jan 2008) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 Goldner String Quartet / Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] 'The performers offer an immensely satisfying and unmannered performance' (BBC Music Magazine) |
MAX BRUCH
Bruch: Piano Quintet in G minor / etc Goldner String Quartet, with Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "[the Goldner] relish the music's C minor sturm und drang with infectious bravado…[and] the quartet's gifted leader Dene Olding joins forces with Piers Lane in a rousing performance of the violin-and-piano Swedish Dances" BBC Music |
HAMILTON HARTY
Piano Quintet / String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 Goldner String Quartet with Piers Lane, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] Acclaimed pianist Piers Lane and his fellow Australians, the Goldner String Quartet, reprise their highly successful partnership in these world-premiere recordings of the two String Quartets and Piano Quintet of Irish composer Hamilton Harty. Born in... |
CASPAR JOSEPH MERTZ
Dances, Nocturnes and Etudes for Six‐String Guitar Graziano Salvoni (six-string 'Stauffer' guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jun/2014 ] Here's another recording dedicated to the music of Caspar Joseph Mertz, the court guitarist of Empress Carolina Augusta whose performances became famous throughout Austria, Hungary and Germany during the 1800s, making him one of the most sought-after... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: String Qrts.1 & 2 / Cello sonata Aurora String Quartet, with Michael Grebanier (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "Aurora Quartet gives well-moulded performances." BBC Music Magazine |
The Hartford String Band
Memories Of John [ Compass / CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] |
DAVID L. POST
String Quartet Nos. 2-4 Hawthorne String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] 'The string quartet has always seemed to me to be the pinnacle of musical expression,' remarks David L. Post, an American composer who makes 'this modest ensemble sing in seemingly impossible ways' (Fanfare). |
W. A. MOZART
Divertimento in E flat major / Prelude & Fugues for String Trio Hermitage String Trio [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "If you do not have a recording of the Divertimento already here is an ideal opportunity to do so, and I am sure that in so doing many hours of supreme musical pleasure are guaranteed." (MusicWeb Feb 2011) |
Hollywood String Quartet
Beethoven:late String Qrts [ Testament / 3 CD - released 4/Feb/1996 ] |