Category: Foghorn Classics

  • Classical CD Choice Reviews Brahms String Quintets & Sextets

    Barry Forshaw offers kind words for our new Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets recording on Classical CD Choice: “In svelte and subtle recordings that capture every delicate strand of Brahms’ masterly writing for his chamber resources, these are among the finest recordings that these masterworks have ever enjoyed; the Alexander String Quartet and their…

  • Brahms String Quintet No. 2 a KDFC Download of the Week

    KDFC FM is featuring our new Brahms: The String Quintets and Sextets CD and is offering a track from the Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111 as their “Free Download of the Week.” Make sure and take advantage of the opportunity! For more from this release purchase here: iTunes Foghorn Classics Amazon

  • Stream Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets in Spotify

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  • Now Streaming on Spotify — Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets

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  • ArkivMusic Recommends BOTH of our New CDs

    ArkivMusic names both Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets and Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets to their Recommended New Releases list, and we’re happy to see them back-to-back in the Top 50 Best Sellers part of that list as well! Purchase & Download Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets Foghorn Classics Amazon Purchase & Download…

  • Jerry Dubins Reviews Brahms Quintets and Sextets in Fanfare

    Fanfare Magazine’s Jerry Dubins (who interviewed Zak Grafilo and reviewed our Brahms & Schumann CD as well) gives high praise to our Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets CD: “Perhaps the most amazing aspect of this Sextet (B-flat Major) is the clarity of the textures and lines Brahms maintains throughout the work, in spite of…

  • AllMusic Gives Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets a Rave

    Critic, James Manheim, rates the new Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets highly in his new review on AllMusic.com: “But hear the way the innocent opening theme of the G major quintet’s first movement almost immediately becomes ensnared in extreme complexities, and the way the Alexander group (the two additional players on the album are…

  • Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets an AllMusic Editor’s Choice!

    Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets with Joyce Young an AllMusic April Editor’s Choice! “The Alexander Quartet gives the Schumann more speed and dramatic energy than it usually has. … there’s a restless quality that makes the music look forward rather than backward… The group’s reading of the work is fast and furious, and if…

  • Brahms & Schumann: Piano Quintets a MusicWeb International Recording of the Month

    Brian Reinhart has named the new Brahms & Schumann: Piano Quintets a MusicWeb International Recording of the Month! “On first listen, I thought, ‘I really, really like this CD’. … Then I started tallying up all the Alexander Quartet albums I now desperately want to purchase, and pitying my poor wallet. All that is a…

  • Brahms & Schumann Piano Quintets Get Five Stars from Audiophile Audition

    New Alexander String Quartet release, Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets with pianist Joyce Yang gets a new Five-Star Review from Audiophile Audition: “This recording under review is simply sensational—rarely have I had that kind of leap-out-of-your-seat experience with a work so tried and true, but this one did it, and the sound is exquisite…

  • Don Clark takes a Gershwin & Kern Road Trip

    Another stellar review from Pictures On Silence critic, Don Clark, for our Gershwin & Kern recording! “…faced with a trip home that would involve some late night driving, I grabbed some CDs to keep my mind alert and my bleary eyes open. One of my selections this time was a new disc sent for my…

  • New Releases Reviews Roundup!

    We’ve already had a good amount of reviews come in for our new recordings, so here’s a roundup in case you’ve missed any! Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets The New York Times —Vivien Schweitzer The Arts Desk —Graham Rickson Pictures On Silence — Don Clark Ensemble Magazine —Carsten Durer Fanfare Magazine —Jerry Dubins Fanfare…

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