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November 13, 2013

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… Continue Reading
November 12, 2013

Grego Applegate Edwards reviews new Bartók & Kodály Release

Grego Applegate Edwards has a new review for the latest ASQ release, Bartók & Kodály, on his Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review blog: “ There is no doubt in my mind; the Alexander String Quartet is a crack outfit. Their Bartok & Kodaly, The Complete String Quartets, a 3-CD set (Foghorn Classics 2009), makes that clear…… Continue Reading
November 8, 2013

Notable Excitement — 30 Years of Music at Kohl Mansion

Just released, Notable Excitement: 30 years of Music at Kohl Mansion by Liz Dossa recounts the captivating history of the longest-running chamber music series on the San Francisco Peninsula. The setting of Kohl Mansion is unmatched for music—both glorious and warm. Notable Excitement captures the charm of the historic mansion and the challenges of creating… Continue Reading
November 7, 2013

Preview This Weekend’s Concerts with Joyce Yang

Get a preview of this weekend’s performances of the Brahms Piano Quintet F Minor, Op. 34 in the following video from our recording sessions with Joyce Yang! Friday November 8, 2013 1:00 pm School of Music & Dance San Francisco State University Knuth Hall San Francisco, California Tel: (415) 338-1111 Web: creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/ Program: Brahms Piano Quintet… Continue Reading
November 4, 2013

The ASQ Meets Joyce Yang — And They Said It Wouldn’t Last

Our dear friends, Sid and Shirley Singer, had been telling us for some time about a marvelous pianist we would love playing with named Joyce Yang. We heard great things about her fabulous playing from various friends who’d heard her in various festivals around the world. “She’s young, energetic and has a great sense of… Continue Reading
October 28, 2013

The Arts Desk reviews Bartók and Kodály

Graham Rickson of The Arts Desk has a generous new review of our Bartók & Kodály recording: “The Second Quartet’s pounding middle movement is fantastic here, and the quartet’s elusive close is nicely taught. You’ll rarely hear the compact, pungent Third Quartet dance as it does here, the last few minutes being thrilling without being… Continue Reading
October 25, 2013

Kodály String Quartet No. 1, Opus 2

Zoltán Kodály composed his First String Quartet in 1909, when he was 27. Four years earlier, Kodály and Bartók had embarked on their first joint expedition to collect Hungarian folk songs, and now Kodály began to incorporate the melodies, rhythms, and shapes of that music into his own compositions. The First String Quartet — at… Continue Reading
October 24, 2013

Kodály, Bartók & Friends

In 1909 four young Hungarian musicians — violinists Imre Waldbauer and János Temesváry, violist Antal Molnár, and cellist Jenö Kerpely — formed a string quartet dedicated to the cause of new music. At a time when musical life in Hungary was generally moribund, the Waldbauer- Kerpely Quartet gave the Hungarian premiere of Debussy’s String Quartet… Continue Reading
October 22, 2013

Next Concert — ASQ and Joyce Yang: Brahms Preview

The next ASQ concert will feature a preview of our 2014 Foghorn Classics release with pianist Joyce Yang! Friday November 8, 2013 1:00 pm School of Music & Dance San Francisco State University Knuth Hall San Francisco, CaliforniaTel: (415) 338-1111 Web: musicdance.sfsu.edu/ Program: Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 with pianist, Joyce Yang Continue Reading
October 21, 2013

Now Available: HERE/AFTER — Songs of Lost Voices

Jake Heggie’s new two-disc recording of music set to texts by Gene Scheer is available today from PentaTone Classics. Featured in the recordings is Heggie’s recent work Camille Claudel: Into the Fire recorded by the Alexander String Quartet and Joyce DiDonato. Camille Claudel: Into the Fire Camille Claudel: Into the Fire is a cycle of… Continue Reading
October 15, 2013

ASQ Plays Kodály this Sunday at SFMUSIC DAY!

Come out to the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s SFMUSIC DAY as the ASQ closes out Sunday’s first session with the Kodály Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 at Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall! About SFMUSIC DAY Enjoy live music in a setting full of energy and freedom, à la San Francisco. Explore Latin American… Continue Reading
October 14, 2013

Positive Feedback Online Raves About Bartók & Kodály

Bob Neill has a fantastic and lengthy review of our new Bartók & Kodály release in the new September/October Issue of Positive Feedback: “The first thing we notice as we work our way though the (three CD) album is the weight and power the Alexanders bring to bear on, or more likely bring out of,… Continue Reading

Latest News

SFCV Reviews Music At Kohl Mansion Concert with Joyce Yang

Grego Applegate Edwards reviews new Bartók & Kodály Release

Notable Excitement — 30 Years of Music at Kohl Mansion

Preview This Weekend’s Concerts with Joyce Yang

The ASQ Meets Joyce Yang — And They Said It Wouldn’t Last

The Arts Desk reviews Bartók and Kodály

Kodály String Quartet No. 1, Opus 2

Kodály, Bartók & Friends

Next Concert — ASQ and Joyce Yang: Brahms Preview

Now Available: HERE/AFTER — Songs of Lost Voices

ASQ Plays Kodály this Sunday at SFMUSIC DAY!

Positive Feedback Online Raves About Bartók & Kodály

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