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The Alexander String Quartet Celebrates 40 Years!
On August 4th 1981, 40 years ago today, the Alexander String Quartet performed its very first public concert as part of the Strawbery Banke Festival in Portsmouth, NH. The photo to the right features that original lineup. And why were we behind bars you might ask? The photo is from Nantucket in 1982. The Concord…
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Art Music Lounge Reviews Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets
August 14, 2020 brings the Alexander String Quartet and clarinetist Eli Eban’s Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets recording! Critic Lynn René Bayley has a pre-release review on her Art Music Lounge site: “[In the Mozart] They very properly use a light, quick vibrato, which is what string players of the 18th century actually did when…
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ALEXANDER STRING QUARTET ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF VIOLIST PAUL YARBROUGH AND NAMES NEW MEMBER DAVID SAMUEL, AN INTERNATIONALLY ACCOMPLISHED CHAMBER MUSICIAN, SOLOIST AND ORCHESTRAL MUSICIAN
TRANSITION TO BE PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED AT THE QUARTET’S SAN FRANCISCO PERFORMANCES FEBRUARY 29 CONCERT AT HERBST THEATRE The 39-year-old, San Francisco based Alexander String Quartet (ASQ) announces the retirement of violist Paul Yarbrough, who will be succeeded by David Samuel. The public announcement will be made at their San Francisco Performances Saturday Morning Series performances…
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Locale : Dvořák Out Today!
With their latest Foghorn Classics release, Locale, the Alexander String Quartet presents brand new accounts of two of Antonín Dvořák’s most enduringly popular chamber works. The “American” String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 from 1893 was written during the composer’s extended retreat from New York City to the rural “Czech” community of Spillville, on…
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Locale : Dvořák Out Today!
With their latest Foghorn Classics release, Locale, the Alexander String Quartet presents brand new accounts of two of Antonín Dvořák’s most enduringly popular chamber works. The “American” String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 from 1893 was written during the composer’s extended retreat from New York City to the rural “Czech” community of Spillville, on…
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Mozart Apotheosis, Vol. 1 Now Available
The Alexander String Quartet turns its attention to Mozart’s last years with this recording of the final four quartets (part of their three-volume set which includes all of his great chamber works from that period). Eric Bromberger’s liner notes are prefaced by comments from ASQ violist Paul Yarbrough, excerpted here: “Taken as a whole, Mozart’s…
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Available NOW – Mozart: The String Quartets – Apotheosis, Vol. 2
The latest release from the Alexander String Quartet, Mozart Apotheosis, Vol. 2 is now available for streaming, download, and CD purchase! “these are by far, hands down and feet up, the most amazing performances of Mozart’s two piano quartets that have ever graced these ears.” —Jerry Dubins, Fanfare Magazine “the Alexanders sound probing and sympathetic,…
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Pre-order Mozart: The Piano Quartets — Apotheosis, Vol. 2
Mozart: The Piano Quartets — Apotheosis, Vol. 2 Now Available for Pre-Order on Amazon Maintaining focus on Mozart’s last years, members of the Alexander String Quartet join with electrifying and much-lauded pianist Joyce Yang on this recording of the two piano quartets. This is the second of a three-volume set which will include many of…
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Con Moto on KQED “Our State, Our Stories”
Set your DVRs – the Alexander String Quartet documentary, Con Moto will be broadcast on KQED’s “Our State, Our Stories” program Friday August 18 at 8pm, Saturday August 19 at 2am, and via KQED Plus on Wednesday, August 23rd at 10am. Watch the trailer via YouTube:
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Britten: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94
In 1973 Benjamin Britten—frail and facing a heart operation— composed his final opera, Death in Venice. Based on Thomas Mann’s 1913 novella, the opera summed up many of the themes of Britten’s artistic career: as the aging novelist Aschenbach embarks on a quest for spiritual redemption in a city assaulted by the plague, he is…
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Announcing a Chamber Music Workshop and Retreat
Announcing a Chamber Music Workshop & Retreat With the Alexander String Quartet String Quartet masterpieces of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven September 7-10, 2017 Ratna Ling Retreat Center (Sonoma County, CA) The Apollo Academy for Health and Humanism The Apollo Academy for Health and Humanism has put together a unique weekend: A chamber music intensive (for…
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Sixteen Strings
A “Flashback Friday” look at our Sixteen Strings documentary broadcast by WSKG-TV as we get closer to the launch of an all-new ASQ documentary!
