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ASQ on KDFC Bay Area Mix
Tune in to San Francisco’s KDFC Radio this Sunday, November 17, at 8 pm Pacific, as Jeffrey Freymann and Robin Pressman broadcast our December 2020 performance of Beethoven’s “Serioso” Quartet. Bay Area Mix highlights Bay Area ensembles. KDFC arts producer, Jeffrey Freymann and Robin Pressman team up to share with you the immediacy of the…
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MusicWeb Names Our Brahms Quartets a Recommended Release!
Our new Brahms: String Quartets recording received a MusicWeb International Recommended distinction and new review from critic Ralph Moore. “The joy of this quartet’s playing is immediately apparent in the ferocious opening movement of the C minor quartet: they play with all the verve, drive and passion you could wish for but never at the…
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Robert Greenberg’s “Invasive Species” — Video
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Meet Laura Krumm!
Sunday the Alexander String Quartet performs Jake Heggie’s Camille Claudel: Into the Fire with mezzo-soprano Laura Krumm at Kohl Mansion, but you can meet her today: “Praised for her “exceptionally beautiful mezzo” Iowa native Laura Krumm is a 2013 graduate of the prestigious Adler Fellowship of the San Francisco Opera. Ms. Krumm has been heard…
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Music At Kohl Mansion This Sunday
ASQ returns to Music at Kohl Mansion this Sunday with an exciting program of Mozart, Brahms and Jake Heggie with soprano Laura Krumm: Mozart: Quartet in B-flat Major, KV 589, “Prussian” Heggie: Camille Claudel: Into the Fire with mezzo soprano, Laura Krumm Brahms: Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1 Explore Camille Claudel: Into…
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Brahms Quintets and Sextets gets Five Stars from Audiophile Audition
Our new Brahms: Quintets & Sextets recording gets a Five-Star review from Audiophile Audition: “The warmth of the Italian sun where [Brahms] was vacationing finds its way into the genial breezes of this piece that makes it one of the greatest he ever penned, though even here we must be cautious in our enthusiasm, and…
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Buffalo News Reviews Slee Beethoven
The Buffalo News reviewed our Slee Beethoven Cycles saying “Technically and emotionally, quartet among best of Slee.” “The musicians were fine, and their interplay was just what you could hope for. Right from the quick, dramatic entrance of the group into Beethoven’s Quartet in F minor (op. 95) to the fading notes of the composer’s…
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Audiophile Audition Reviews here/after
Audiophile Audition has a five-star review for Jake Heggie and Gene Sheer’s new here/after recording featuring the Camille Claudel: Into the Fire song cycle. “Finally, the first piece on the recording and certainly to my mind the greatest, is ‘Camille Claudel: Into the Fire.’ … The piece is riveting from start to finish, composed for…
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SFCV Reviews Music At Kohl Mansion Concert with Joyce Yang
The San Francisco Classical Voice has a wonderful new review of Sunday’s Music at Kohl Mansion performance with pianist Joyce Yang: “Take a well-established, internationally acclaimed string quartet and add a brilliant young pianist who was not even a glimmer in the eyes when the quartet was founded. Throw them in a 100-year-old ballroom of…
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Meet Anne-Marie McDermott
Sunday, the Alexander String Quartet closes out the 30th Anniversary Season of Music at Kohl Mansion with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott! Find out a little about Anne-Marie below in a wonderful profile by the Cincinnati Enquirer‘s Janelle Gelfand: She’s won major awards. She made her Carnegie Hall debut at age 12. She’s recorded complete works of…
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SFCV Highlights Music At Kohl Mansion
The San Francisco Classical Voice highlights this weekend’s ASQ and Anne-Marie McDermott performance to close out the 30th Anniversary Music at Kohl Mansion season: “Music at Kohl Mansion closes its 30th anniversary season at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, with the Kohl debut of pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. They will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto K.449…
