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MusicWeb Names Our Brahms Quartets a Recommended Release!
Our new Brahms: String Quartets recording received a MusicWeb International Recommended distinction and new review from critic Ralph Moore. “The joy of this quartet’s playing is immediately apparent in the ferocious opening movement of the C minor quartet: they play with all the verve, drive and passion you could wish for but never at the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Strings Sessions Video
The ASQ stopped by the Strings Magazine studio for a performance of Mozart’s String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K.575, Allegretto; and Brahms’ Intermezzo Op. 118, No. 2 (arranged by Zakarias Grafilo):
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Brahms a Best of 2014
The Arts Desk‘s Graham Rickson names his Best Classical CDs of 2014 and our Brahms: The String Quintets and Sextets makes the cut! “Also hailing from San Francisco are the Alexander String Quartet, whose recent Bartok and Shostakovich cycles on the Foghorn Classics label wouldn’t disappoint anyone. They’re joined by violist Toby Appel and cellist…
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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…
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Lynn René Bayley Reviews Coming “Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets” release
Fanfare Magazine’s Lynn René Bayley has new review of our coming Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets recording with Toby Appel and David Requiro for the upcoming Fanfare issue: “It is almost as if this Quartet and their additional players for these Quintets and Sextets visualize the music as if it were a modern construction…
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Lynn René Bayley Reviews Coming Brahms & Schumann Piano Quintets
Fanfare Magazine’s Lynn René Bayley has new review of our coming Brahms & Schumann Piano Quintets recording with pianist Joyce Yang for the upcoming Fanfare issue: “The crisp, lively, and emotionally committed performance style of the Alexander Quartet has almost become a trademark in my home. I look forward to each and every one of…
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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…
