JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: String Quartets Op.54 Nos 1 - 3 Endellion String Quartet [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/1988 ] "the Endellion's playing is nearly always beyond reproach, and this contrasting array of Haydn's quartet styles and personalities is no exception. They bring out with very simply clarity all of Haydn's humour." (Gramophone) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: String Quartets Op.74 Nos 1 - 3 Endellion String Quartet [ Virgin Ultraviolet / CD - released 5/Nov/1990 ] "the Endellion's playing is nearly always beyond reproach, and this contrasting array of Haydn's quartet styles and personalities is no exception. They bring out with very simply clarity all of Haydn's humour." (Gramophone) |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lyric Suite (with works by Wellesz & Zeisl) Renée Fleming (soprano) / Emerson String Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] This release unites on record for the first time America's reigning star soprano Renée Fleming and its premier string quartet, The Emersons, to take us on a journey into the twilight world of Vienna in the 1920s and 30s in music imbued with late... |
KAROLY GOLDMARK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Goldmark: String Quartet in B-flat major Op. 8 / String Quintet in A minor Op. 9 Fourth Dimension String Quartet [ ASV / CD - released 1/Sep/1999 ] "What an amazingly responsive, fine-tuned, and utterly flexible ensemble they are. A major addition to the chamber catalog." ClassicsToday 10/10 |
LEOS JANACEK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Janacek: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 [with Smetana - String QuartetNo. 1] Gabrieli String Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] "They have authority and imagination and they are as faithful to the score as I can judge … I admire the way they succeed in sustaining magic without inflating the rhetoric and over-emphasizing the bizarre." Gramophone |
GABRIEL PIERNE
Pierne: String Quintet (with Vierne - String Quartet) Goldner String Quartet, with Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Apr/2014 ] "The Goldner weigh every chord to perfection, and make the textures utterly transparent, while their partnership with Lane in the quintet is exemplary." (Guardian) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete / Concerto in D / etc Guildhall String Ensemble [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Jun/1990 ] Recorded June, 1988, at Forde Abbey, Dorset |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Suite de Concert, Ballad, Spiritual for Piano Harold Wright (clarinet), Virginia Eskin (piano), Hawthorne String Quartet [ Alto / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] A collection of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor works |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' / String Quartet No. 12 'Quartettsatz' Jerusalem String Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] "The Jerusalem find all the drama. Another fine, compelling release from the Jerusalem Quartet." (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2008) |
JANACEK / SMETANA
String Quartets Jerusalem String Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] One might see them as the father and the heir. On the one hand, Bedrich Smetana, whose oeuvre is regarded as having founded the Czech national school; on the other, Leoš Janácek, his spiritual son (with Dvorák acting as the link between the two),... |
DVORAK / SCHUMANN
Piano Quintets Jonathan Biss (piano) / Elias String Quartet [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Chamber |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Juilliard String Quartet …Plays Schoenberg Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / 7 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century, was born in Vienna in 1874. Columbia was a pioneer in documenting Schoenberg's achievements and already demonstrated that commitment during his lifetime (he died in... |
MILHAUD / MOZART / BARTOK / BERG / COPLAND / SCHOENBERG / etc
Juilliard Quartet - The Early Columbia Recordings Juilliard String Quartet, with Leontyne Price (soprano) Samuel Barber (piano) [ Sony Classical Masters / 16 CD Box Set - released 18/Jun/2021 ] Following up its widely acclaimed reissues of the Juilliard String Quartet's complete Epic and RCA Victor albums - originally issued between 1956 and 1960 - Sony Classical is excited to present a new 16-CD box set collecting the earliest albums of... |
DAVID BRUCE / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Bruce: Gumboots / Brahms: Clarinet Quintet Julian Bliss (clarinet) / Carducci String Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] "The joyous rhythmic barrage of the finale could almost be out of a Falla ballet. Brahms's Op 115 Clarinet Quintet is an odd counterweight; Bliss and the Carducci Quartet offer a worthwhile, well-balanced performance with especial spark in the third |
MOZART / WEBER
Mozart & Weber Quintets Julian Bliss (clarinet) / Carducci String Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Julian Bliss joins the Carducci String Quartet in performances of two seminal works - Weber's Clarinet Quintet in B flat Major, Op. 34 and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581. This is the second collaboration on disc between Bliss and the... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI / MARIO CASTELNUOVO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boccherini/Castelnuovo Tedesco - Guitar Quintets Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) / Tokyo String Quartet [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Mar/1991 ] Recommended Recording - ClassicalNet "Ravishing playing by a born Boccherinian" (Classical-Music.com) *** Penguin Guide recording |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / LUIGI BOCCHERINI / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Castelnuovo-Tedesco/Boccherini: Guitar Quintets: Piano Trios Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) / Tokyo String Quartet [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 20/May/1995 ] "A rich yet un-glitzy recording helps this intensely felt yet refined performance, and altogether the artists offer a memorable musical experience." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Lindsay String Quartet [ Decca Eloquence / 10 CD Box Set - released 23/Jul/2021 ] "The present set has always been highly regarded amongst the top performances of these ever-rewarding works and returning to them is a great pleasure." MusicWeb Recommeded |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 59, No. 2 & "Razumovsky" & String Quartet in E flat, Op 74 "Harp" Lindsay String Quartet [ ASV / CD - released 21/Apr/2003 ] The Lindsays' acclaimed new Beethoven series offers fresh interpretations of some of the composer's finest works for string quartet |
HANDEL / VIVALDI / ALBINONI / MARCELLO / BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Baroque Oboe Concertos Malcolm Messiter (oboe) / Guildhall String Ensemble [ RCA Victor Read Seal / CD - released 5/Mar/1990 ] Recorded at the Forde Abbey, Dorset, November 1988, and in Rosslyn Hall Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, May 1989 |