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2022-04-28 00:37:45
[…] acclaimed and emerging international artists in classical chamber music and recitals and a legacy of important debuts andpremieres. In addition, SHCS collaborates with local schools and subsidizes hundreds of student tickets each season. The list of artists presented by SHCS is remarkable—Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Ewa Podlés, Maurizio Pollini, Jacqueline du Pré, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jordi Savall, András Schiff, Rudolf Serkin, Janos Starker, Daniil Trifonov, Lynn Harrell, Emmanuel Ax, Alban Berg Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, Kronos Quartet, ClevelandQuartet, and Quartetto Italiano, among many others. SHCS also has a history of championing importantmusicians early in their careers, including Richard Goode, Hilary Hahn, Hélène Grimaud, Dawn Upshaw, Lang Lang, and the Emerson String Quartet. Commissioned composers include Timo Andres, Sebastian Currier,Jonathan Leshnoff, James Lee III, Hannah Lash, and Nina C. Young. Designed specifically for the community, SHCS offers the Discovery Series, a series of free concerts presented in venues throughout the region focused on artists emerging on the national […]
2021-07-11 09:00:07
The Bottom Line: Recorded from 1946-1959, these recordings showcase the origins of the Quartetto Italiano’s incomparably aristocratic, impeccably tasteful, supremely musicianly style. They are mandatory listening for anyone who cares about great quartet playing, in music ranging from the early baroque to the mid-20th century. Warner has remastered this 14-disc set with the care that […]
2020-09-18 23:00:00
The Guarneri Quartet plays the Complete Beethoven String Quartets
[…] smooth-cornered ensemble. There's no doubting the earnestness of either set's performances: Arnold Steinhardt, John Dalley, Michael Tree, and David Soyer are masterful musicians and ardent individualists who mean what they say and do what they say they'll do. While there have been many superlative recordings of Beethoven's complete quartets -- one thinks of the Old World charm of the Budapest Quartet's cycle, the New World energy of the Emerson, the Old Europe beauty of the Quartetto Italiano, the postwar intensity of the Alban Berg, or the pre-millennial rapture of the Quatuor Végh -- this later set by the Guarneri Quartet arguably ranks with them.(AllMusic review)
2020-06-30 23:00:00
Romantic Chamber Music Schoeck - Onslow - Chausson - Bartolucci - Enescu
[…] Sergei RachmaninovElegiac Trio No. 1 P. I. Tchaikovsky Piano TrioVadim Repin violinMischa Maisky celloLang Lang piano DG 2008 Bedrich SmetanaString Quartet No. 1Cesar FranckString Quartet in D majorJuilliard SQSony 1997 George Onslow Grand Sextour Grand SeptuorNielsen Wind Quintet Jean Hubeau pianoMarc Marder double bass Warner Apex 2003Ludwig van Beethoven Grosse Fugue op. 133 W. A. Mozart Adagio and Fugue K546 Igor Stravinsky Double Canon Three Pieces Concertino Robert Schumann String Quartet No. 3 Quartetto Italiano Amadeus 1977 Enrique Granados Piano Trio Violin Sonata Preludes Madrigal Danza gallega Trova Trio Rodin Aevea 2015 Antonin DvorakString Quartet No. 12 "American"Melos SQHarmonia Mundi 1997Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet Sring Sextet No. 2 Isabelle Faust violin Christian Tetzlaff violin Lars Vogt piano Cavi Music 2006 Franz SchmidtPiano QuintetAnton BrucknerString QuintetEduard Mrazek pianoVienna Philharmonic QuintetDecca 1974Edward Elgar Piano Quintet Robert Schumann Piano Quintet Lars Vogt piano […]
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