Category: Foghorn Classics

  • Preview our new Mozart in Vienna Series

    Preview the new San Francisco Performances Mozart in Vienna Series via our Homage album on Spotify: Mozart in Vienna Saturday, January 25, 2014 — 10:00 am Program: String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387 & String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421 More information and tickets at sfperformances.org! Purchase Homage iTunes…

  • Kodály String Quartet, No. 1 Graphical Score Video

    Stephen Malinowski of the Music Animation Machine, has a new “graphical score” video up featuring our recording of the third movement from the Kodály String Quartet, No. 1! Have a look (and listen) here: iTunes Allegro Classical Amazon  

  • Another Fanfare review for Bartók & Kodály

    Another review for our Bartók & Kodály release in the latest issue of Fanfare Magazine! “Kodály’s Second Quartet, op. 10, is less than half as lengthy as his First, far more sophisticated, and equally lovely. The Alexander gives gorgeous readings of both quartets, becoming a bit more aggressive at Kodály’s energetic moments than it was…

  • Fanfare With A New Rave For Bartók & Kodály

    Jerry Dubins recently published a rave review of our Bartók & Kodály recording for Fanfare Magazine subscribers, calling it one of “the finest Bartók quartets on record.” “This is a superb new Bartók string quartet cycle, and one I shall return to often … Consequently, by reason alone of it being an invaluable addition to…

  • Bartók & Kodály Given A Positive Feedback 2013 Writers Choice Award

    Positive Feedback Online has released their “10th Annual Positive Feedback Writers’ Choice Awards” list for 2013. A list they dub “The Best of the Best!”; and our new Bartók & Kodály recording is one of three CDs selected! “Quietly, deliberately, and without fanfare, the Alexander String Quartet has been moving through the major string quartet…

  • Audiophile Audition Gives Five Stars to Bartók & Kodály!

    Audiophile Audition gives a rave Five-Star review of our Bartók & Kodály recording, leading with, “This is an essential recording, maybe the best ever of these important works.” “If ever an album had ‘Grammy nominee’ written on its front cover, this is it. There have only been a handful of “complete” Bartok quartets recordings that…

  • MusicWeb International Reviews Bartók & Kodály

    MusicWeb International‘s Dominy Clements reviews our new Bartók & Kodály recording: “Bartók’s string quartets are amongst the most superb and striking of the entire 20th century, and the ASQ does them proud in these performances. They nail the heightened folk-music intensity of a movement such as the finale of the String Quartet No. 3, and…

  • Bartók String Quartet No. 1, Opus 7, Sz.40

    Bartók made the first sketches for his First String Quartet in 1907, did most of the composition in 1908, and completed the quartet on January 27, 1909, but the music had to wait over a year for its premiere at the “Bartók evening” in March 1910. Any composer who sets out to write a string…

  • Grego Applegate Edwards reviews new Bartók & Kodály Release

    Grego Applegate Edwards has a new review for the latest ASQ release, Bartók & Kodály, on his Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review blog: “ There is no doubt in my mind; the Alexander String Quartet is a crack outfit. Their Bartok & Kodaly, The Complete String Quartets, a 3-CD set (Foghorn Classics 2009), makes that clear……

  • Preview This Weekend’s Concerts with Joyce Yang

    Get a preview of this weekend’s performances of the Brahms Piano Quintet F Minor, Op. 34 in the following video from our recording sessions with Joyce Yang! Friday November 8, 2013 1:00 pm School of Music & Dance San Francisco State University Knuth Hall San Francisco, California Tel: (415) 338-1111 Web: creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/ Program: Brahms Piano Quintet…

  • The Arts Desk reviews Bartók and Kodály

    Graham Rickson of The Arts Desk has a generous new review of our Bartók & Kodály recording: “The Second Quartet’s pounding middle movement is fantastic here, and the quartet’s elusive close is nicely taught. You’ll rarely hear the compact, pungent Third Quartet dance as it does here, the last few minutes being thrilling without being…

  • Kodály String Quartet No. 1, Opus 2

    Zoltán Kodály composed his First String Quartet in 1909, when he was 27. Four years earlier, Kodály and Bartók had embarked on their first joint expedition to collect Hungarian folk songs, and now Kodály began to incorporate the melodies, rhythms, and shapes of that music into his own compositions. The First String Quartet — at…

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