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The Whole Note Praises Brahms: String Quartets
The Whole Note Magazine’s Terry Robbins reviews the Alexander String Quartet’s recording of Brahms: String Quartets in their December 2021 issue: “Yarbrough notes that the ASQ took decades to feel ready to record these quartets, and they certainly get to the heart of the music in powerful performances of strength and depth in the String Quartets in… Continue Reading
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InfoDad gives Brahms String Quartets its Top Rating!
Review site InfoDad gives its top rating, 4-stars, to the Alexander String Quartet’s recording of Brahms: String Quartets: “The subtlety and mutuality of purpose with which the members of the Alexander String Quartet approach Brahms’ three quartets are almost a perfect example of the conversational form of music-making of which string quartets have been exemplars… Continue Reading
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Art Music Lounge Declares Brahms: String Quartets Recording “a stunning achievement”
The ASQ’s Brahms: String Quartets recording comes out November 5, 2021, and the Art Music Lounge‘s Lynn René Bayley has an early rave review: “It’s been quite a ride for the Alexander Quartet. From the first time I heard them, roughly 16 years ago, I was convinced that they were the premiere American string quartet… Continue Reading
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The Alexander String Quartet Celebrates 40 Years!
On August 4th 1981, 40 years ago today, the Alexander String Quartet performed its very first public concert as part of the Strawbery Banke Festival in Portsmouth, NH. The photo to the right features that original lineup. And why were we behind bars you might ask? The photo is from Nantucket in 1982. The Concord… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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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.… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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Art Music Lounge Reviews Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets
August 14, 2020 brings the Alexander String Quartet and clarinetist Eli Eban’s Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets recording! Critic Lynn René Bayley has a pre-release review on her Art Music Lounge site: “[In the Mozart] They very properly use a light, quick vibrato, which is what string players of the 18th century actually did when… Continue Reading
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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:… Continue Reading
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Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ
It has been the Alexander String Quartet’s pleasure to present a performance of Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Good Friday alongside verse readings by Dean Emeritus Alan Jones. This year, we spent Holy Week creating a virtual performance. We recorded each of our parts while sheltering-in-place, and our… Continue Reading
