LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Guitar Quintets, Vol. 2 Zoltan Tokos (guitar) / Danubius String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2011 ] "A powerful contender in any stakes." Classical Guitar Magazine |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Guitar Quintets, Vol. 3 Zoltan Tokos (guitar), Gyorgy Eder (cello) / Danubius String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2011 ] |
BEDRICH SMETANA / ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak / Smetana: String Quartets Tokyo String Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] "The Tokyo Quartet offer great warmth and sensitivity, and an immediacy and intimacy which draws the listener in...I definitely give the thumbs-up to this recording." (MusicWeb) |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Op 18 Nos 1-6 Tokyo String quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2007 ] "The Tokyo Quartet here produce a sumptuous, beautifully blended sonority and perform with outstanding music insight, unanimity and polish." The Strad, February 2008 |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 'Harp' Tokyo String quartet [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2009 ] The Tokyo String Quartet continues its complete Beethoven cycle with this third volume. Both the graceful Op. 74, nicknamed 'Harp' for its use of pizzicato, and Op.95, with its quest for the essential, testify to the new maturity achieved by the... |
BRAHMS
Quintets Op 34 & Op 115 Tokyo String quartet with Jon Manasse (clarinet) [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] |
HAYDN / BOCCHERINI / SCHUBERT / STAMITZ / KLECYNSKI
Sapphires Tres Cordes String Trio [ Ode Records / CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] |
Turtle Island String Quartet
4 + Four [ Telarc / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] |
Tyrone Brown String Sextet
Song Of The Sun [ Naxos / CD ] |
GLAZUNOV
String Quartets Nos 3 & 5 Utrecht String Quartet [ MDG / CD - released 6/Oct/2007 ] Utrecht String Quartet |
JOHANNES VERHULST
String Quartets Op. 6, Nos. 1 & 2 Utrecht String Quartet [ MDG / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] During the nineteenth century Johannes Verhulst was the most influential musician in the Netherlands. He enjoyed international esteem and as a conductor initiated the Bach renaissance in Holland. The great Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy himself took the... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartets Vol 1 (Nos 1 & 2) Utrecht String Quartet [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/May/2010 ] "…the players…rich tone and blended sonorities make the most of Tchaikovsky's beautiful harmonic passage, while solo melodies such as those for viola and cello in the finale of the First Quartet have an ample sound that does full justice to this... |
GRECHANINOV
String Quartets Vol. 2 Utrecht String Quartet [ MDG / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] |
GRETCHANINOV
String Quartets: Volume 1 (rec 2002) Utrecht String Quartet [ MDG / CD - released 29/Jun/2006 ] "This volume fully meets the standards of its companion. No-one could claim any of the four as epoch-shattering quartets but they are deftly crafted and very enjoyable, presented with care, precision and sometimes panache by the gifted Utrecht... |
GLAZUNOV
String Quartets Vol 3: Suite Op 38 / String Quintet Op 39 Utrecht String Quartet with Michael Stirling (cello) [ MDG / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] The Utrecht String Quartet adds to its cycle of the Russian composer Alexander Glazunov's complete string quartets with the Suite for String Quartet op. 35 and the Quintet op. 39. The previous releases have received high critical acclaim. "The... |
SHOSTAKOVICH / GRANADOS / SCRIABIN / PROKOFIEV / MALININ
Valentin Malinin Piano Laureate Recital - 2021 Winner Jaén Prize International Piano Competition Valentin Malinin (piano) / Bretón String Quartet [ Naxos Piano Laureate series / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Russian pianist Valentin Malinin, winner of the 62nd Jaén International Piano Competition, has chosen a programme that offers moments of reflection alongside dazzling virtuosity. |
LOUIS SPOHR
Complete String Quartets Vol.13: String Quartets Nos 9 & 7 Moscow Philharmonic Concertino String Quartet [ Marco Polo / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] Louis Spohr's string quartets combined the Classical finesse of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven with the early Romantic innovations of the Quatuor brilliant, in which the virtuosic first violin enjoys particular prominence. Popular with contemporary... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Classic 100: Beethoven Jayson Gillham, Nicole Car, Gerard Willems, Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Anna Goldsworthy, the Goldner String Quartet. [ ABC Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2020 ] In 2019, Beethoven was revealed as Australia's favourite composer, topping the Classic 100: Composer countdown. And so in 2020, to celebrate his 250th birthday, we're dedicating the Classic 100 to Beethoven. |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Williams: Legendary Recordings (Incls 'On Wenlock Edge' & 'Serenade To Music') Recorded 1938-1955 George Maran (tenor) / London String Quartet / Ivor Newton (piano) / Isobel Baillie / Heddle Nash / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult [ ALTO / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "1938 was Sir Henry Wood's jubilee and the magical Serenade to Music which Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote for it… this, with the original soloists RVW had in mind, has obvious uniqueness but it possesses a very special beauty and atmosphere." - Gramophone |
BORIS TISHCHENKO
Tishchenko: Concerto for violin, piano & string orchestra, Op. 144, etc. Victoria Postnikova (piano) & Alexander Rozhdestvensky (violin) String Orchestra of St. Petersburg & Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 29/Oct/2007 ] Boris Tishenko's composer's career spans the modest thaw under Khrushchev, the Brezhnev freeze, Gorbachev's perestroika and the great leap into liberal economics under Yeltsin that continues strong under Putin.Though he was Shostakovich's favourite... |