Category: News

  • Stream Brahms String Quintet No. 2

          Buy from Foghorn Classics! Buy on Amazon Today!     Now Available for CD & Download! Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets The Alexander String Quartet; Toby Appel, viola; David Requiro, cello; The perennially beloved complete string quintets and sextets of Johannes Brahms, performed by the Alexander String Quartet with their cherished…

  • Win our Bartók & Kodály CDs!

    Online magazine, Audiophile Audition is awarding five winners our Bartók & Kodály recordings! All you have to do is Sign Up! Audiophile Audition Review: “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 one can call ‘legendary’…

  • New Release — Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets

    Now Available for CD & Download! Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets The Alexander String Quartet and Pianist Joyce Yang “If you enjoy these two works, you owe it to yourself to hear what the Alexander Quartet and Joyce Yang make of them.” —Lynn René Bayley, Fanfare Magazine Two of the greatest and most popular…

  • 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…

  • SF MusicDay 2013 Video

    Video recorded at SFMusic Day 2013 courtesy of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Recording Services, Jason O’Connell and San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music:

  • Now Available: HERE/AFTER — Songs of Lost Voices

    Jake Heggie’s new two-disc recording of music set to texts by Gene Scheer is available today from PentaTone Classics. Featured in the recordings is Heggie’s recent work Camille Claudel: Into the Fire recorded by the Alexander String Quartet and Joyce DiDonato. Camille Claudel: Into the Fire Camille Claudel: Into the Fire is a cycle of…

  • Preview Jake Heggie’s here/after CD

    Jake Heggie is releasing a new collection of his music featuring song cycles written in collaboration with librettist and poet Gene Scheer. One of the cycles is the Camille Claudel: Into the Fire piece premiered by ASQ & Joyce DiDonato as part of the Alexander String Quartet 30th Anniversary Celebrations! Watch a trailer featuring the…

  • Help Us Choose Our Next CD Cover!

    We’re getting closer to the release of our Bartok & Kodaly recording, and we’re having a hard time choosing between the wonderful “Contact 49, San Francisco” series by photographer Rory Earnshaw! Help us choose by “liking” or commenting on your favorite image in our new Facebook Photo Album!

  • San Francisco State University 2013 Commencement

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  • Sandy Interviews the Allant Piano Trio for the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar and Festival

    In preparation of next weekend’s exciting Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar and Festival, Sandy Wilson has a quick interview with Alina Lim of the Allant Piano Trio. The Allant Piano Trio will be one of four exciting young emerging chamber music ensembles performing throughout the festival. Sandy: Have any of you been to California before…

  • The ASQ 2012 Year In Review

    2012 has been a rich and very busy year for the ASQ. As we have completed Fall ’12 semester juries for our students at SFSU and in the Morrison Chamber Music Center, we realize that apart from getting the grades in, (no disasters, some lovely successes and only a couple of incompletes), we have only…

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