DEBUSSY / RAVEL
String Quartets Australian String Quartet [ ABC Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The current membership of the Australian String Quartet was established in 2006. Among their many accolades, these players were selected to perform a series of concerts to celebrate the Danish Royal Wedding in 2004. This is a wonderful CD filled with... |
FLORENCE PRICE / LEO SOWERBY
Price/Sowerby: Music for String Quartet Avalon String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Florence Price and Leo Sowerby were both prominent members of the Chicago music community in the 1930s and 1940s, and they are known to have respected each other's work. Most of Florence Price's compositions remained unpublished at her death, and her... |
RAVEL / JANACEK
String Quartets Avalon String Quartet [ Channel Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2001 ] |
Banfalvi/Budapest String
Vivaldi:violin Conc.Op8 5-8 [ Naxos / CD ] |
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven String Quartet Play Beethoven Beethoven String Quartet [ Melodiya / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] |
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN WILLIBALD MICHL
Michl: Quartets Nos. 1-6 for Bassoon, 2 Violins and Cello Ben Hoadley (bassoon) / The Hall String Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Upon hearing a chamber piece by Joseph Michl in Munich in 1772 the English composer and music historian Charles Burney wrote, 'I hardly ever heard a composition that discovered more genius and invention.' |
W.A. MOZART
Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra / Quintet for Clarinet & String Quartet Benny Goodman (clarinet) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch / Boston symphony String Quartet [ Sony Originals / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] Two classic reformances now remastered. |
MOZART
Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Clarinet Quintet (1938, 1946) Benny Goodman (clarinet) / George Szell (piano) / Budapest String Quartet [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] Restored from original undubbed pressings, this adventurous 1938 recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet brings together “the King of Swing”, Benny Goodman, and the great Budapest String Quartet. A firm favourite with the record-buying public, this... |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / WEBER / etc
Benny Goodman: Clarinet Classics Benny Goodman (clarinet) with Budapest String Quartet, Nadia Reisenberg (piano) & others [ Heritage / CD - released 23/Sep/2014 ] As a jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman had no peer. But his enthusiasm and virtuosity led him to interpret the most important works of the classical clarinet canon and to commission new works. This CD release gathers together some of his most notable... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: String Quintet in G, Op. 77 / Nocturne, Op. 40 / Scherzo from String Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97 Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] The Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet has become one of the best ensembles in its field, gaining a world-wide reputation. Here they give a sublime interpretation of DvoĆák's String Quintet. |
CASHIAN / BUTLER / NICHOLLS
String Quartets Bingham String Quartet [ NMC / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] |
BORODIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / GLAZUNOV / SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV
Great Russian String Quartets Borodin Quartet (Borodin, Tchaikovsky) / Shostakovich Quartet (Glazunov, Shostakovich) / American String Quartet (Prokofiev) [ Alto / 6 CD - released 11/Sep/2015 ] (They)…bring a special intensity to this repertoire as well as effortless technical address, and a tonal blend which gives their readings a strong claim on the collector's allegiance. |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartets,Volume 3 (Includes Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 in B flat major) Borodin String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] Beethoven's quartets contain some of the greatest, most enigmatic music ever written. They have been subjected to the closest scrutiny by the world's leading musicologists in an effort to ascertain exactly what the composer's intentions were when he... |
BORODIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / WEBERN / SCHUBERT / RACHMANINOV
Borodin Quartet: 60th Anniversary Borodin String Quartet [ Onyx Classics / CD - released 9/Jul/2005 ] "One of the finest string quartet discs I have heard for some time with all the music played con amore." (MusicWeb Jan 2007) |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartets, Vol 2 (String Quartet, Op. 59 No. 2; String Quartet, Op. 74 'Harp') Borodin String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/May/2004 ] 'This redoubtable Russian group plays with all the powerful, focused tone you'd expect and brings out the entire wealth of Beethoven's colour in these fiery performances.' Classic FM Magazine |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, volume 1 (Nos 7 & 9 Op 59) Borodin String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] Chandos is proud to present the first in its series of complete Beethoven String Quartets. The quartets, containing some of the greatest, most enigmatic music ever written, are in the capable hands of one of the world's finest ensembles. |
Borromeo String Quartet
Fairouz: Native Informant [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] |
BUTTERWORTH / BRIDGE / PARRY
Works for Strings English String Orchestra, William Boughton [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] |
BEETHOVEN
The Late String Quartets Op. 127 & Op. 131 Brentano String Quartet [ Aeon / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] "This is a disc that makes one want to hear the Brentanos in the other late Beethoven quartets. Anyone who fancies this generous coupling need not hesitate." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 |
Breton String Quartet
Guridi: String Quartets [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] |