-
Strings Magazine Features Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets
In the upcoming August issue of Strings Magazine, critic Laurence Vittes comes away impressed with the new Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets recording: “Their two-CD set of the Quintets Op. 88 and 111, and Sextets Op. 18 and 36, with violist Toby Appel and cellist David Requiro, shows the Alexanders at the full breadth… Continue Reading
-
KUAF Radio Names Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets a CD of Note
KUAF 91.3FM (Arkansas) has is featuring our Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets CD on their “Of Note” program hosted by Katy Henriksen. “Of Note” is an hour devoted to classical recordings of note, as well as classical music and fine arts events of note in the listening area. “Explore a Brahms before Vienna with… Continue Reading
-
Brahms: The String Quintets and Sextets “Chamber Music Heaven”
An ArkivMusic.com customer calls our Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets CD “Chamber Music Heaven!” “The Alexander with augmented forces show their mettle in beautiful recordings of the Brahms sextets and the string quintets. All come off with beautiful playing, phrasing and intonation. I was especially impressed with the Sextets which are some of my… Continue Reading
-
Classical Net Raves for Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets
Classical Net‘s Brian Wigman has a fantastic new review for our Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets recording with Joyce Yang: “This disc is nothing short of a delight, beautifully projected chamber music in deliciously clear sound. The Alexander String Quartet…play magnificently here, and young pianist Joyce Yang proves more than a mere partner. As… Continue Reading
-
New Animated Score Video from Stephen Malinowski
Stephen Malinowski of the Music Animation Machine has a new animated score for our new recording of the Brahms String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111: III. Un Poco Allegretto: Purchase: iTunes Foghorn Classics Amazon Subscribe to Mr. Malinowski’s YouTube Channel! Continue Reading
-
Sandy’s Travel Blog #4: Homeward Bound
I’m sitting in the airport more than ready for the homebound trip. Portland has been as refreshingly verdant, cool and overcast as ever and has once more, however brief, provided a lovely and productive visit with some lovely folks. The sole purpose of this jog was to visit Allegro Media‘s enormous and super efficient head-offices… Continue Reading
-
Sandy’s Travel Blog #3 — From Fort Worth to NYC to Portland!
The muggy thundery weather that greeted my on my arrival in DFW soon gave way to a gorgeous late-spring evening. By the time David Weuste and his lovely wife Emily had picked me up at my hotel and navigated the dense and hair-raising traffic from the mid-cities to downtown Fort Worth, it had set up… Continue Reading
-
Sandy’s Travel Blog #2 — From the Klein Competition to Fort Worth
Wrapping up the Klein competition on Sunday afternoon was a nerve-wracking experience. The final round in SFSU’s Knuth Hall was attended by a capacity crowd of enthusiasts, supporters, disappointed but well-wishing semi-finalists and in many cases family members too. The sequence of performances, drawn by ballot yielded two cellists before a brief intermission and the… Continue Reading
-
Sandy’s Travel Blog #1
The ASQ is taking a week off from our summer routine. There’ll be some sacrosanct vacation time with families coming later in July and August but for the meantime, we are taking a little time out for some “rebooting.” Paul has left to spend a week in Florida with his family and to be with… Continue Reading
-
Recording for Robert Greenberg’s new OraTV Show!
-
The Arts Desk Reviews Brahms: The String Quintets and Sextets
The Arts Desk on our new Brahms: The String Quintets and Sextets recording: “The Alexander Quartet never disappoint on disc, and they’re spectacularly good here. Listening to them ease into the the waltzing second subject of the Bb Sextet’s opening movement, or hearing guest violist Toby Appel sing out the Andante’s variation theme is a… Continue Reading
