Matthew Shipp String Trio
The Multiplication Table [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: Towards Silence Medici String Quartet / Court Lane Quartet / Finzi Quartet / Cavaleri Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] "This must count as one of Tavener's most powerful and sublime achievements." (The Sunday Times) |
MENDELSSOHN
String Quintets Nos 1 & 2 Mendelssohn String Quartet / Robert Mann [ BIS / CD - released 14/Dec/2007 ] Two of Mendelssohn's classic chamber works |
WALTER PISTON / LEON KIRCHNER / EARL KIM / etc
Harvard Composers Mendelssohn String Quartet with Lucy Shelton (soprano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] "The US-based ensemble play both works with jubilant conviction and mastery of a wide range of colour, dynamics and expressive nuance, the whole sounding wonderfully spontaneous." - On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1... |
SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Oceano: Chamber Music by Sebastian Fagerlund Meta4 String Quartet / Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet), Paavali Jumppanen (piano), Hervé Joulain (horn) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "Yet his chamber music is no less compelling…By turns ferociously rhythmic, playful and softly luminous, every piece here shares a coherent dramatic arc." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted - Premiere |
JOAN TOWER
Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 5 / Dumbarton Quintet Miami String Quartet / Daedalus Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] "This disc of fairly recent chamber works by one of the most prominent American composers (b1938)...makes a vivid case for the timeless relevance of the thoroughly well argued in music." (Sunday Times) |
SAINT-GEORGES / STILL / COLERIDGE-TAYLOR / CORDERO / KAY / WALKER / etc
Black Composer Series - The Complete Album Collection Miriam Fried, Jaime Laredo, Sanford Allen (violins) Faye Robinson, Doralene Davis (sopranos) Juilliard String Quartet, London Symphony Orchestra, etc [ Sony Classical / 10 CD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "The sound is in general typical of Sony at this period in time, close set with good spatial definition. Some journey, this, and I'd heartily recommend it." Gramophone |
ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Complete Chamber Music Mndoiantz (piano), Gotthelf (cello) / Moscow String Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Alexander Borodin was a highly respected research chemist who published over 40 scientific works and composed in his spare time...The undoubted masterpiece is his Second String Quartet, one of the most famous and best loved works in the genre. |
LOUIS SPOHR
String Quartets, Volume 14: Quartets Nos.31 & 36 Moscow Philharmonic Concertino String Quartet [ Marco Polo / CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] This is the 14th volume in Marco Polo's ongoing survey of the string quartets of Spohr, one of the greatest violinists of his day. Louis Spohr composed string quartets throughout his career, the String Quartet No. 36 being his last completed... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Complete String Quartets Vol 14: String Quartets Nos 31 & 36 Moscow Philharmonic Concertino String Quartet [ Marco Polo / CD - released 16/Mar/2011 ] This is the 14th volume in Marco Polo's ongoing survey of the string quartets of Spohr, one of the greatest violinists of his day. |
ARENSKY / TANEYEV
Arensky / Taneyev: Piano Quintets Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "Lane's light-fingered ascents and rapid scalic plunges are perfectly complemented by the Goldners' feather-light string playing." BBC Music |
KIRCHNER / KILLMAYER / HARRISON / LEES / DENNY / ROSEN / etc
Fromm Music Foundation - Twentieth Century Composer Series Nathan Rubin, Ludwig Shapero (violins) George Neikrug (cello) Leon Kirchner (piano) / The New York Concert Choir & Orchestra, Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2020 ] From January 1957 to March 1962 Columbia Masterworks in collaboration with the Fromm Music Foundation released a series of 9 highly acclaimed LPs in the Twentieth Century Composer Series with music by, then, contemporary composers. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Love & Death Navarra String Quartet [ Orchid / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] |
SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN
String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887, Op. 161 / String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 New Orford String Quartet [ Bridge Records / CD - released 25/Oct/2011 ] |
ZHOU LONG / TAKEMITSU / GAO PING / UNG / TAN DUN
Asian Music for String Quartet New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] This programme brings together aesthetic and musical elements of East and West. |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok - Complete String Quartets New Zealand String Quartet [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 21/Sep/2009 ] Dramatic and heartfelt performances from the 1990s, now reissued on Atoll. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] Brahms's two String Quartets, op.51, were the first he published but, completed in his 40th year, are very much mature masterpieces. He was very conscious of the tradition that lay behind the quartet genre, and the spirits of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven... |
BEETHOVEN
'Rasumovsky' Quartets Opus 59 No's 2 & 3 New Zealand String Quartet [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 25/Jul/2002 ] Eagerly awaited recording by the New Zealand String Quartet |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 3 - Nos. 3 & String Quartet in E flat New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] Praised by Gramophone for the "deep feeling" of its playing on Volume 1 (8570001) the New Zealand String Quartet here completes its recording of all the Mendelssohn Quartets. |
VIVALDI / ALBINONI / MARCELLO / BELLINI / CIMAROSA
Five Italian Oboe Concertos Nicholas Daniels (oboe & director) / Peterborough String Orchestra [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] 'Nicholas Daniel's playing, beautifully controlled and judiciously ornamented, makes it easy to listen again to a choice selection' (Fanfare, USA) |