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A Warm Recommendation for the Mozart Piano Quartets
“Joyce Yang plays with a full, brilliant tone, definitely aimed at getting the most possible out of the modern piano. The Alexanders play on a matched 1987 set of instruments made by Francis Kuttner. The violin and cello are designed after Stradivarius models. Together the strings produce a rich blended tone… Yang and the Alexanders…
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The Whole Note Reviews Mozart: Apotheosis, Vol. 2
The Whole Note Reviews the Alexander String Quartet’s Mozart: The Piano Quartets – Apotheosis, Vol. 2 recording with pianist Joyce Yang: “Mozart was not the first to write quartets for piano and strings, but his two contributions – the Piano Quartet in G Minor K478 and Piano Quartet in E-flat Major K493 from 1785 and 1786 respectively – are…
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Bartók String Quartet No. 6
One of the paramount qualities of the Bartók quartets as a series is that—like Beethoven’s—they exemplify growth. The problems and possibilities of string quartet writing are not of the kind that imply a single solution, no matter how perfect, nor a single form, no matter how refined. With the composition of the Sixth Quartet, then,…
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This weekend – Boise Chamber Music Series
This Friday, the Alexander String Quartet joins the Boise Chamber Music Society at Boise State University to close out the 2012-2013 Boise Chamber Music Series: The final concert of the 2012-13 Boise Chamber Music Series features the Alexander String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. For their third…
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Alexander String Quartet goes to Google
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Looking Towards September – The ASQ Calendar
The 2012-2013 Alexander String Quartet season begins next month! Check out our September schedule below: Wednesday September 19, 2012 7:30 pm Rossmoor Chamber Music Society Gateway Clubhouse Fireside Room Walnut Creek, California Tel: (925) 979-0870 Web: www.rossmoornews.com/ Program: Mozart Quartet in F Major, KV 590 Shostakovich Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 108 Schubert Quartet…
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Alexander String Quartet Plays Six Famous Songs of Jerome Kern
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Alexander String Quartet – Gershwin & Kern – Release Day!
Release Day! Gershwin & Kern The Alexander String Quartet & Joan Enric Lluna Foghorn Classics CD2008 The Alexander String Quartet, now in its 31st season and among the world’s premiere chamber ensembles, releases a vibrant new recording of much-loved music by George Gershwin and Jerome Kern on its Foghorn Classics label. The quartet is joined…
