Since you are interested in Complete String Quartets Volume 2 - Nos. 2 and 4, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet / String Quartet No.3 Boris Rener (clarinet) / Quatuor Ludwig [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2002 ] "effective and touching contrasts of mood and idiom.." -Michael Jameson |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
British Music: Green & Pleasant Land Christopher Maltman (Baritone) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor) Graham Johnson (Piano) Nicholas Daniel (Oboe) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] A delightful selection of English music with a pastoral theme featuring several individual tracks from award winning discs in the British Music series. Performed by the elite of British artists. |
JUAN CRISOSTOMO ARRIAGA
Arriaga: Complete String Quartets Camerata Boccherini [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] "This is a wonderfully presented, recorded and performed release which is a must for chamber music lovers." (MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
MAX REGER
Reger: String Trios and Piano Quartets (Complete), Vol. 1 Aperto Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] The first of two discs containing the complete piano quartets and string trios of Max Reger, this release features the String Trio in A minor of 1904, a work of almost Mozartian clarity and the 1910 Piano Quartet in D minor. Modelled on Brahms's C... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintet No. 7 / String Sextet, Op. 140 / Potpourri Attila Falvay (violin) Sandor Papp (viola) Tamas Varga (cello) / New Haydn Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] Louis Spohr was accepted during his lifetime as one of the most important composers of early German Romanticism whose compositions covered all the major genres of that era. |
SCHULHOFF
Music for String Quartet Aviv Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Largely forgotten in the decades after his death, the wide-ranging output of the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff has come to much greater prominence over the last quarter-century. The music featured here dates from the mid-1920s, a productive period... |
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... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 Blair Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] "Collectors really need look no further" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 4 Carducci String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] This disc features the first four of his five quartets, ranging from the uncharacteristic yet fascinating sound-world of the First, through the compact dimensions of the subsequent two (themselves derived from theatre and film scores). |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: Complete String Quartets Vol 1: Nos. 1 & 3 Carpe Diem String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "A fascinating disc. The music of Sergei Taneyev is fully worthy of investigation. A reputation for academicism has dogged this composer so that over time his works have been completely overshadowed. He is much better known for being the teacher of... |