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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Alexander String Quartet Presents “Bartók & Kodály”
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Now Available — Bartók & Kodály
Bartók & Kodály The Alexander String Quartet brings to life the complete quartets of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in this new 3-CD release. Contemporaries and fellow ethnomusicologist-composers, Bartók and Kodály wrote some of the most beautiful, beguiling, and ultimately influential string quartet music of the 20th century. Producer and multiple Grammy® winner Judith Sherman…
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Bartók and Kodály Launch Concerts This Sunday!
The Alexander String Quartet will officially launch the new Bartók & Kodály recording this weekend during the Sunday Double-header at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts! Concert Details: Sunday October 6, 2012 2:00 pm Bartók and Kodály Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Davis, California Tel: (530) 754-2787 Web: www.mondaviarts.org/events/ Program: ASQ…
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Fanfare Reviews Bartók & Kodály
Fanfare Magazine’s, Lynn René Bayley has a pre-release review for our Bartók & Kodály recording! “This fascinating set combines the string quartets of two then-young professors of music in Hungary, Béla Bartók and Zoltan Kodály. … “I felt that Alexander’s performance of the first quartet’s opening movement, though less leisurely in feeling, has a tensile…
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Stream an excerpt from Kodály String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Stream a new excerpt from our upcoming bartók & kodály release:
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Stream the Kodály String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2 – III. Presto
Stream a full track from our upcoming bartók & kodály release:
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bartók & kodály CD artwork
Last week, we revealed the cover and inlay artwork for the coming bartók & kodály recording, and today we reveal the actual CD artwork! Have a look:
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Bartók & Kodály artwork reveal
After all of the votes were tallied, we decided you all liked the Ceiling image so much we couldn’t stand to crop it up a ton to fit on the album cover, so it is the interior CD (in a digipak form) spread, allowing it to be the largest image in the album. Here is…
