Juilliard String Quartet
Berg/Carter/Schuman [ Testament / CD ] |
DEBUSSY / RAVEL / DUTILLEUX
Debussy, Ravel & Dutilleux: String Quartets Juilliard String Quartet [ Newton Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] |
Juilliard String Quartet
Debussy/Ravel/Webern [ Testament / CD ] |
ELLIOTT CARTER
The Five String Quartets Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 6/May/2014 ] Elliott Carter's five string quartets are landmarks in the American composer's rich, visionary body of work. And no ensemble has been as essential in bringing these works to life as the Juilliard String Quartet. Their performances grew out of a... |
MENDELSSOHN / MOZART / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / HAYDN
Juilliard String Quartet - The Complete EPIC Recordings Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical Masters / 11 CD Box Set - released 16/Feb/2018 ] The first ever release of the Juilliard String Quartet's complete Epic recordings from 1956 to 1966 in a single 11-CD edition. |
Juilliard String Quartet
Mozart/Haydn/Schubert [ Testament / CD ] |
W. A. MOZART
The Six Quartets dedicated to Haydn & Six String Quintets [6 CD set] Juilliard String Quartet, with Harold Wright (clarinet) [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2011 ] Founded in 1946, this amazing group's current lineup has had only fifteen different members. The founding members were together until 1955 and the group only had two changes in the first twenty years. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Juilliard String Quartet plays Schubert & Brahms [5 CD set] Juilliard String Quartet, with Walter Trampler, viola II [ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2012 ] The great Juilliard Quartet present a boxed set with late Schubert quartets and the Brahms quintets |
Kagan/Brunner/Jolley/String Se
Merikanto:conc For Vln,Clar,Ho [ Ondine / CD - released 21/Feb/2000 ] |
KARITA MATTILA
Fever Karita Mattila (soprano) / Fever band & String section [ Ondine / CD - released 14/Dec/2007 ] "Karita Mattila has good go at scat singing and in the delivering climactic phrases that swing rather than hold the air like operatic high notes." Mike Ashman, Gramophone, March 2008 |
FAURE
Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 2 / Nocturne No 4 Kathryn Stott (piano) / The Hermitage String trio [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "Stott and the Heritage Trio imbue the hushed sections with a sense of eerie menace, refusing to smooth the edges, which is certainly not to say they are rough and ready elsewhere...the exquisite account by Stott of the fourth Nocturne is the icing o |
BARNES / GARLAND / HALL / LAWSON / LYNCH / etc
The Glittering Plain - New Works and Arrangements for Saxophone and Ensemble Lara James (saxophone) / Pavão String Quartet & Will Todd Trio [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] An exciting new disc from one of the UK's leading exponents of contemporary saxophone. |
Leipzig String Quartet
Roslavets/Lourie: Quartet No 3 [ Mdg / CD - released 12/Jan/2004 ] |
BRAHMS
Piano Quintet Op 34 Leipzig String Quartet with Andreas Staier (piano) [ MDG / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
W.A. MOZART
Divertimento K563 & Duo K424 Leopold String Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] 'eclipses Grumiaux as my top recommendation in both works'-BBC Music Magazine - |
TANEYEV
String Trios Leopold String Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "It would be hard to over-praise the Leopold Trio's performances. Agility and all-round aplomb? Check. Warmth and colour? Check. Structural and idiomatic awareness? Check. Fine recording quality and helpful annotation… too; so no reason not to... |
DOHNANYI / MARTINU / SCHOENBERG
Dohnanyi, Martinu & Schoenberg-Music for String Trio The Leopold String Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] Those who have yet to experience these miniature masterpieces are in for a treat. The Leopold String Trio, considered one of the world's most outstanding string ensembles, here performs these greatest works of the 20th-century string trio repertoire... |
J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations, BWV988 The Leopold String Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2011 ] "Captivating, mesmerising, and life-enhancing." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Oct 2011) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: 'Trout' Quintet & String Trios Leopold String Trio with Paul Lewis (piano) Graham Mitchell (double bass) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2006 ] 'one of the finest modern Trouts available. As with their Mozart, their Schubert benefits from scrupulous attention to detail, a keen sense of the music's drama and a deeply rewarding expressive response to this imperishable masterpiece … exquisitely... |
BRAHMS
Clarinet Quintet in B minor (with works by Mozart, Glazunov & Sweeney) Lesley Schatzberger (clarinet) Fitzwilliam String Quartet [ Linn SACD / SACD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] "The Fitzwilliam Quartet offers playing that is pure, sensitive and, where called for gorgeously passionate." The Scotsman |