The Financial Times

Rubbra: String Quartets 1, 3 and 4

Naxos’ English music series is turning into one of the gems of the CD catalogue. Time and again, it has revealed unexpected treasure in the chamber music of mid-20th century composers who were ...
Jazz

Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12

In the thirty-page booklet that accompanies Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartets Nos. 1-12, the trumpeter & composer devotes a few paragraphs to the subject of inspiration. He traces an irregular line ...
Jazz

String Quartets Nos. 1-12

Disc 1: String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982) Movements 1 - 4, String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980) 16:52; Disc 2: String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995) Movements 1 ...
The Financial Times

Tippett: String Quartets 1-5 — review

Inspired by TS Eliot, the young Tippett dreamt of writing four quartets. In fact, he went on to compose five. Three are relatively early, dating from the second world war, two are from his later years ...
The Guardian

Harty: String Quartets Nos 1 and 2; Piano Quintet – review

Hamilton Harty's string quartets and piano quintet are early works, his Opp 1, 5 and 12 respectively. They were composed in the early 1900s, straddling Harty's move from his native Ireland to London, ...
culture.pl

String Quartet No. 1 in C major Op. 37 – Karol Szymanowski

Szymanowski wrote his String Quartet No. 1 in the autumn of 1917, during one of the most difficult periods of his life, when the revolutionaries and the Soviet communist party escalated their ...
The Guardian

Zemlinsky: String Quartets Nos 1 and 2 review – first-class second instalment

The Escher Quartet's performance of one of Zemlinsky's greatest and most radical pieces is a highlight of this superb disc The first instalment of the Escher Quartet's survey of Zemlinsky, including ...
The Irish Times

Britten: String Quartets 1, 2 & 3

Benjamin Britten wrote the first two of his numbered string quartets in 1941 and 1945. The First was in the US, where it was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; the Second was written for the ...
Gramophone

SCHUMANN String Quartets Nos 1 and 3 (Zehetmair Quartet)

Our received legacy of Schumann string quartet recordings goes back as far as the Flonzaley, Capet, Léner and Prague Quartets, but I can honestly say that as treasurable as those vintage documents are ...
The Irish Times

Górecki String Quartets 1-3

Royal String Quartet Hyperion CDA 67812 (2 CDs for the price of one)* * * Polish composer Henryk Górecki (1933-2010) is not just a one-hit wonder, but, for most people, a one-work composer, known for ...
CBC.ca

4 string quartets you need to know

Since winning first prize at the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition, Canada's Rolston String Quartet has been swept up in a whirlwind of concerts throughout Austria, Germany, Italy, ...