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How a recording featuring Gershwin started in Spain
How does the idea for a recording of two great American composers get started in Spain? Well, take a look at an excerpt from the Gershwin & Kern Liner notes to find out: “The path to this disc of quintessentially American music was long and circuitous; it involves the contributions of many different people over…
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Gershwin & Kern dedication to Freda Silberman
Gershwin & Kern Dedication to Freda Silberman on the occasion of her ninetieth Birthday! From the Gershwin & Kern Liner Note Dedication: All the Things You Are… Given the intimate nature of the chamber music art form, it should be expected that it would engender, along with beautiful sounds, beautiful relationships. When the Alexander…
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Gershwin & Kern Track Listing
Since the nice review from Fanfare Magazine for our upcoming Gerswhin & Kern release was published, folks have been asking about what exactly is on this new CD. So today, we’re sharing the full Gershwin & Kern track listing! George Gershwin: From the “Porgy & Bess” Suite” – arranged by Carl Davis: Summertime A Woman…
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Gershwin & Kern Pre-Release Links
We’re just over one month from the new Gershwin & Kern release, but you can pre-order today! Pre-Order Via: Amazon.com Allegro Classics
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Gershwin & Kern gets a Pre-Release Review from Fanfare Magazine
Our newest recording, Gershwin & Kern comes out August 14th, but Fanfare Magazine already has some thoughts in it in their latest issue: “Despite the largely popular nature of this material, the Alexander Quartet takes their parts quite seriously, imparting a great deal of elegance and feeling to their accompaniments. Lluna plays these pieces with…
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Fanfare Reviews “In Friendship”
Lynn René Bayley has a wonderful new review of our release In Friendship in the latest issue of Fanfare Magazine. Here are just a few of the things she has to say about this recording with Joan Enric Lluna: “This album, titled In Friendship, is particularly remarkable for César Cano’s clarinet quintet, written in 2011…
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Meet Producer Judith Sherman
Meet upcoming Bartok & Kodaly Producer Judith Sherman: A ten-time Grammy Award nominee and the winner in 1993, 2007, and 2011 of the award for Classical Producer of the Year, Judith Sherman has made an indelible contribution to the catalogue of recorded classical music. Early in her career she was employed at WBAI-FM in New…
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The Details on the Bartok and Kodaly Recording
The When: ASQ will be in the studio for this recording from June 24th-July 6th (and we’ll be blogging throughout)! The Where: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere, CA On What?: We’ll be recording on the Ellen M. Egger Quartet of instruments, and luthier Francis Kuttner will be present and on hand for the sessions…
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Looking ahead to the Jerome Kern & George Gershwin Recording
Coming this August — Gershwin & Kern Recorded at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California and Produced by Grammy Award winning composer Judith Sherman. This recording presents some very familiar and much-loved music in an unexpected format. Ten of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin’s greatest songs — songs almost everyone has heard (and probably sung)…
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Upcoming ASQ Recording Sessions
Today we wanted to give a sneak peek at what’s coming down the pipeline from the Alexander String Quartet and Foghorn Classics: George Gershwin & Jerome Kern – featuring Joan Enric Lluna on clarinet Bartók & Kodály Schumann & Brahms piano quintets with Joyce Yang Brahms Quartets, Quintets, and Sextets Robert Greenberg Chamber Music written…
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In Friendship – César Cano: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 74
In Friendship One of the most fertile conjunctions in the history of music has been the combination of the smooth sonority of the clarinet and the resonant sound of stringed instruments — that fusion of quite different textures and sounds has produced great music in completely different eras. And that combination of sonorities has at…
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Michael Gandolfi – Winter Light: With Strings Attached
Recently featured on WNYC’s “New Sounds”, Michael Gandolfi’s Winter Light shows why this new composer is quickly becoming a star in more than just contemporary concert music. It is also another piece on the album inspired by poetry. The work consists of two movements, “Falling Snow” and “Opal,” which both come from American poet Amy…
