BOZIDAR KUNC / FRAN LHOTKA / JOSIP ŠTOLCER SLAVENSKI
Kunc / Slavenski / Lhotka: Chamber works for String Quartet Sebastian String Quartet [ CPO / CD - released 10/May/2020 ] Music from the Sebastian String Quartet's native Croatia, by Croatian composers or by composers who spent a significant part of their careers in Croatia, forms a special focus in this ensemble's work. |
JENNIFER HIGDON
Higdon: Early Chamber Works Serafin String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] Pulitzer and GRAMMY® Award winner Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed living American composers, and this program provides a unique opportunity to hear première recordings of her earlier chamber music. |
The Silk String Quartet
The Silk String Quartet - contemporary & trad Chinese Music [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Unique in its instrumentation and presentation, the Silk String Quartet is a young and professional London based Chinese string instrumental group of top quality - combining traditional and modern, Chinese and Western music in a fresh and creative... |
J.S. BACH
Goldberg Variations-transcription for strings by Dmitry Sitkovetsy Sitkovetsky / New European String Chamber Orchestra [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 12/May/1995 ] German import (catalog 7559793412) |
South Memphis String Band / Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart & Jimbo Mathus
Home Sweet Home [ CD ] |
Soweto String Quartet
Renaissance [ BMG Music / CD - released 15/Jun/1997 ] Vibrant, energised happy music. Strings meld elegantly with chants |
Spiegel String Quartet
Lekeu: String Quartets [ Mdg / CD - released 12/Jul/2004 ] |
LOUSIS VIERNE
Chamber Music Spiegel String Quartet, with Levente Kende (piano) [ MDG / CD - released 22/Mar/2015 ] Louis Vierne is recognized as one of the leading composers of music for the organ. This release also shows Vierne to be an extremely talented composer of chamber music. Vierne composed the Piano Quintet in C minor on the occasion of his son's death... |
St Petersberg String Quartet
Shostakovich: String Quartets [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Aug/2002 ] |
SHOSTAKOVICH
The Complete String Quartets / Piano Trio No 2 / String Quintet St Petersburg String Quartet [ Hyperion / 6 CD Box Set - released 23/Mar/2010 ] 'These players approach Shostakovich's mighty cycle with a natural authority that's unanswerable, along with tireless precision and virtuosity, plus a wonderful command of the music's way of switching between sunlight and shadow when you least expect... |
St Petersburg String Quartet
Glazunov:5 Novelettes/Quartet5 [ Delos / CD - released 9/Jul/2001 ] |
St Petersburg String Quartet
Shostakovich: Quartets 7 & 9 [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] |
SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartets 5, 7 & 9 St Petersburg String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] 'These are among the great interpretations that have been placed on disc … I do believe that this cycle could grow to some of the most impressive Shostakovich performances ever placed on disc' (Fanfare) |
DEBUSSY / RAVEL
String Quartets St Petersburg String Quartet [ Marquis / CD - released 30/Mar/2009 ] The critically acclaimed St. Petersburg Quartet, founded as the Leningrad Quartet, has won numerous international awards and concertized across North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. |
SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartets 4, 6 & 8 St Petersburg String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Nov/2000 ] 'These are among the great interpretations that have been placed on disc' (Fanfare). |
SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartets Nos 2 & 3 St Petersburg String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Nov/2000 ] 'Deserves an emphatic recommendation and makes one impatient for the ensemble's next Shostakovich disc' (BBC Music Magazine) |
SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartet no.1, Piano Quintet & Piano Trio no.2 St. Petersburg String Quartet with Igor Uryash (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] "With a suburb recording to boot, this release provides an extremely fitting conclusion to the St Petersburg's excellent Shostakovich cycle. I have no hestitation in recommending the performance of the First Quartet." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the... |
LYELL CRESSWELL
Cresswell: Landscapes of the Soul & Piano Concerto Stephen De Pledge (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Hamish McKeich, with the New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] Lyell Cresswell, one of New Zealand's most distinguished composers, is represented on this recording by three examples of his mastery of the orchestral sound world. His Piano Concerto is cast in seven movements, written in memory of his fellow... |
Jake HEGGY / Gene SCHEER
Here / After - Songs of Lost Voices Steven Costello, Joyce DiDonato, Nathan Gunn, Talise Trevigne, Carol Wincenc (flute), The Alexander String Quartet [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2013 ] "Though Heggie's thematic ideas might seem a bit commonplace on first hearing, listeners are advised to stay alert to each song's last note. Invariably, one is ambushed by the music's cumulative effect...Performances by longtime Heggie collaborators |
String Bone
Nadir [ CD ] |