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All About The Arts Praise for Apotheosis Vol. 3
“Divine is an adjective one could comfortably apply to any note of music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ever wrote, especially the six gems that he wrote during the last four years of his life. Divine is also one of many words of praise one could apply unselfconsciously to the exquisite playing of all six Mozart string…
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MusicWeb International Recommends Brahms & Mozart Clarinet Quintets
Glyn Pursglove offers a second MusicWeb International review of our Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets recording with Eli Eban and makes it a recommended recording! “Even on my first listen to the disc, it was clear that this was the work of musicians with great respect for these two masterpieces, but who were not inhibited…
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MusicWeb International Reviews Brahms & Mozart Clarinet Quintets
MusicWeb International critic Jonathan Woolf reviews our Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets recording with Eli Eban: “ if it’s Mozart and Brahms you want, then you will find that the Alexander Quartet and Eban provide readings of lyric warmth predicated on scrupulous and nuanced musicianship. … eloquently phrased qualities held in just balance by the…
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Stereophile Declares Brahms & Mozart Clarinet Quintets “A Joy”
Jason Victor Serinus gives a Four-Star Performance and 4.5-Star Sonics rating to our Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets recording with Eli Eban in the September 2020 issue of Stereophile Magazine: “Set down with a matched quartet of instruments… the performances were recorded last year in hi-rez at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere, California, with…
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Finding healing in Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets
Rafel de Acha reviews our Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets recording with Eli Eban for his Music Notes site: “There are times – either times of day or times in which we live – when music can provide healing, induce calm, soothe our troubled hearts, allay our fears, and for a moment dispel our cares.…
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Fanfare Magazine Reviews Brahms & Mozart Clarinet Quintets
Jerry Dubins has offered a preview of his review of our Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets recording with Eli Eban coming to Fanfare Magazine: “Immediately apparent in this new recording is the warmth and sweetness of Eban’s tone. … Where the clarinet needs to soar over the strings, Eban also accomplishes that in an unforced…
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MusicWeb International Reviews In Meinem Himmel
MusicWeb International reviews our Mahler Song Cycles recording with Kindra Scharich: “Pace Grafilo, I actually find this quartet transcription more intimate than the piano version. Four string players, working in coördination, can actually be more flexible than one pianist at a grand piano, whose imposing resonance somehow induces formality. Many passages in the Rückert songs and the Kindertotenlieder move along rather briskly:…
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Apotheosis Vol. 1 Receives a Top Rating from InfoDad
The InfoDad blog awards ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (their top rating) to our Mozart: The Final Quartets, Apotheosis Vol. 1 recording: “ The great chamber music of the past continues to involve and thrill performers and listeners alike, and to be subject to multiple interpretations that emphasize varying elements of works that are multifaceted and have genuine depth.…
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Apotheosis Vol. 1 A MusicWeb International Recommended Recording!
Dominy Clements names Mozart: The Final Quartets, Apotheosis Vol. 1 a Recommended recording on MusicWeb International! “There is a transparency in the playing and recording throughout this set which has a welcoming character that is both superficially attractive and always rewards ever-closer listening. This may have something to do with the matched quality of the…
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May Mozart’s Last Quartets Live Long and Prosper
Music critic Jerry Dubins offers a preview from his upcoming Fanfare review of our Mozart: The Final Quartets, Apotheosis, Vol. 2 recording: “…the Alexander [String Quartet] offers a take on these works that is suffused with feelings of warmth, mellowness, and tenderness that come from maturity—maturity in this case of both the composer and the…
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In Meinem Himmel in The Whole Note
“…transcriber violinist Zakarias Grafilo, gave much thought and effort to preserve some of the aural colours and even the emotional innigkeit of the original… Idiomatic and virtuoso string playing and the singing is simply gorgeous. Young American mezzo Kindra Scharich has a beautiful voice, total emotional commitment and musical imagination that certainly makes worthwhile listening. Her…
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The Whole Note Reviews Mozart: Apotheosis, Vol. 2
The Whole Note Reviews the Alexander String Quartet’s Mozart: The Piano Quartets – Apotheosis, Vol. 2 recording with pianist Joyce Yang: “Mozart was not the first to write quartets for piano and strings, but his two contributions – the Piano Quartet in G Minor K478 and Piano Quartet in E-flat Major K493 from 1785 and 1786 respectively – are…
