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Brahms String Quintet No. 2 a KDFC Download of the Week
KDFC FM is featuring our new Brahms: The String Quintets and Sextets CD and is offering a track from the Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111 as their “Free Download of the Week.” Make sure and take advantage of the opportunity! For more from this release purchase here: iTunes Foghorn Classics Amazon Continue Reading
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Stream Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets in Spotify
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Now Streaming on Spotify — Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets
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ArkivMusic Recommends BOTH of our New CDs
ArkivMusic names both Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets and Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets to their Recommended New Releases list, and we’re happy to see them back-to-back in the Top 50 Best Sellers part of that list as well! Purchase & Download Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets Foghorn Classics Amazon Purchase & Download… Continue Reading
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Jerry Dubins Reviews Brahms Quintets and Sextets in Fanfare
Fanfare Magazine’s Jerry Dubins (who interviewed Zak Grafilo and reviewed our Brahms & Schumann CD as well) gives high praise to our Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets CD: “Perhaps the most amazing aspect of this Sextet (B-flat Major) is the clarity of the textures and lines Brahms maintains throughout the work, in spite of… Continue Reading
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AllMusic Gives Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets a Rave
Critic, James Manheim, rates the new Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets highly in his new review on AllMusic.com: “But hear the way the innocent opening theme of the G major quintet’s first movement almost immediately becomes ensnared in extreme complexities, and the way the Alexander group (the two additional players on the album are… Continue Reading
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Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets an AllMusic Editor’s Choice!
Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets with Joyce Young an AllMusic April Editor’s Choice! “The Alexander Quartet gives the Schumann more speed and dramatic energy than it usually has. … there’s a restless quality that makes the music look forward rather than backward… The group’s reading of the work is fast and furious, and if… Continue Reading
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At the Crowden Music Center
Some pictures from our Wednesday event with the kids at Crowden Music Center. We’ll play there this Sunday on their 30th Anniversary Season. Crowden faculty member Eugene Sor is one of our former students and joins us as a guest artist along with Jory Fankuchen who is a former student of Anne Crowden. More information… Continue Reading
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Brahms & Schumann: Piano Quintets a MusicWeb International Recording of the Month
Brian Reinhart has named the new Brahms & Schumann: Piano Quintets a MusicWeb International Recording of the Month! “On first listen, I thought, ‘I really, really like this CD’. … Then I started tallying up all the Alexander Quartet albums I now desperately want to purchase, and pitying my poor wallet. All that is a… Continue Reading
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Brahms & Schumann Piano Quintets Get Five Stars from Audiophile Audition
New Alexander String Quartet release, Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets with pianist Joyce Yang gets a new Five-Star Review from Audiophile Audition: “This recording under review is simply sensational—rarely have I had that kind of leap-out-of-your-seat experience with a work so tried and true, but this one did it, and the sound is exquisite… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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Shirley Singer Photos
Another romp in the Singer’s wonderful sculpture garden. Shirley once again captures magical and seemingly effortless shots of the ASQ relaxing as we explore the latest acquisitions and repositioning of some of their stunning collection of contemporary sculptors. Look for even more new images to come soon! Continue Reading
