MORTON FELDMAN
Clarinet and string quartet (with Christopher Fox - Clarinet Quintet) Roger Heaton (clarinet) with string quartet [ Metier / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "This CD is a good 'way in' to both composers. I had two hours of pleasure from playing this one twice through and thinking about it." - Peter Grahame Woolf (Musical Pointers) |
CHRISTOPHER GUNNING
Christopher Gunning: Symphony No. 5 & String Quartet No. 1 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Juno String Quartet / Christopher Gunning (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Christopher Gunning's Symphony No. 5 was composed during 2009 and was the composer's most ambitious to date, in four extended movements. There is no strict programme, but the music moves through several phases which could be said to correspond to... |
SIR JAMES MacMILLAN
MacMillan: String Quartets Royal String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Jul/2018 ] "Excellent throughout, the Royal Quartet impart a brittle edge to the sound that brings MacMillan's quartets closer to mid-century European modernists such as Lutosławski and Penderecki. But there are moments of intense, lyric beauty here too." Gramo |
SZYMANSKI / MYKIETYN
Music for string quartet Royal String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] The official titles of the works performed here are not helpful: what they conceal are the most extraordinary soundworlds from two composers at the vanguard of the contemporary Polish music scene, and the magicians of the Royal String Quartet summon... |
PENDERECKI / LUTOSLAWSKI
String Quartets Royal String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] |
GYROWETZ
Three String Quartets Salomon String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Dec/2000 ] 'The performances are superb, with neat, exciting playing…this disc cannot be recommended too highly'(Early Music Review) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The Six 'Haydn' String Quartets [special price] Salomon String Quartet [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2009 ] 'Admirers of the Salomon Quartet's 'authentic' approach to Mozart will be glad to learn that their versions of the 'Haydn' Quartets ... are now available in a 3-CD boxed set at a slightly reduced price' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
String Quartet No. 1 / Fantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings / Sonata for Violin and Piano Sarah Francis (oboe) / English String Quartet / Melbourne String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] "Here are some rarely recorded works by a superb composer in excellent performances at mid-price." American Record Guide |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Chamber works for wind, strings & piano Sarah Francis (oboe) Judith Fitton (flute) Michael Dussek (piano) / Tagore String Trio [ Regis Records / CD - released 7/Jul/2012 ] "Sarah Francis forms an idiomatic and communicative partnership with pianist Michael Dussek...a desirable collection, engineered with striking fidelity" (Gramophone) |
KROMMER
Krommer, Franz - Quintets and Quartets for Oboe and strings Sarah Francis, oboe / Tagore String Trio with Jonathan Barritt, viola [ Regis Records / CD - released 17/May/2005 ] "..the two masterly Quintets are recorded here for the first time, having been researched extensivley for performing editions specially produced by these musicians.." - Michael D.Johnson |
HELENA TULVE
Lijnen Arianna Savall (voice) Ophele-Gaubert, Peaske (flutes) / Silesian String Qt / NYYD Ensemble & Stockholm Sax [ ECM New Series / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] The first ECM disc from the only composition pupil to date of Erkki-Sven Tüür, gifted young Estonian Helena Tulve, whose work speaks in its own unique language through a variety of chamber music settings and with a fluid approach to form, sound and... |
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... |
RALPH TOWNER / MUTHSPIEL / GRANAGE
Migration Slava Grigoryan (guitar) / Australian String Quartet [ ABC Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] Guitarist Slava Grigoryan joins the Australian String Quartet in three world-premiere recordings, bringing dazzling contemporary voices to the guitar quintet genre first forged in the baroque period. |
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... |