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Fanfare finds Dvořák: Locale to be a Gratifying Achievement!
Huntley Dent is the second Fanfare critic to add our new Dvořák : Locale recording in the “Not To Be Missed”! “ the Alexander String Quartet delivers profoundly beautiful readings of two Dvořák masterpieces with a remarkable feeling of freshness. No passage is played by rote, and you never feel the fatigue of years. For…
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Fanfare says Locale is Not To Be Missed!
Jerry Dubins of Fanfare Magazine not only has our new Dvořák : Locale recording in the “Not To Be Missed” section, he’s also entering it in Fanfare‘s Classical Hall of Fame! “The Alexander String Quartet, joined by Joyce Yang in Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, has done it again. Hard on the heels of the ASQ’s recent…
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Apotheosis Volume Two Should Be Your First Choice in Mozart’s Piano Quartets
Fanfare Magazine’s Huntley Dent offers a second review for our July 27th release, Mozart: The Piano Quartets, Apotheosis, Vol. 2 with pianist Joyce Yang! “The long-standing and widely praised Alexander Quartet brings warmth and vitality to Mozart’s wonderful piano quartets, which date from 1785 and 1786—fitting just before and after Le nozze di Figaro—performing them…
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An absolute RAVE review from Fanfare for Mozart: The Piano Quartets, Apotheosis, Vol. 2
Fanfare Magazine’s Jerry Dubins offers the first review for the Alexander String Quartet and Joyce Yang’s July 27th release, Mozart: The Piano Quartets, Apotheosis, Vol. 2! “Some time has passed since last hearing from the Alexander String Quartet, but the wait has been well worth it. I will state categorically at the outset of this…
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Fanfare Magazine Reviews Patagón
Fanfare Magazine’s Colin Clarke has a new review for our latest recording Patagón featuring the music of Cindy Cox: “Elegy for solo violin is a five-minute, slowly-unfolding, eloquent tribute. Zakarias Grafilo plays it beautifully, particularly the stratospherically-high final section: the music seems to ascend into silence like a spirit finding the higher realms. … Out…
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Jerry Dubins putting Brahms & Schumann in “Best” lists!
Jerry Dubins of Fanfare Magazine says the new Brahms & Schumann Piano Quintets recording with Joyce Yang is already contending for his year-end “Want List”: “The Alexander’s Schumann is indeed breathtaking, as much for its sweeping lyricism and emotional responsiveness to the music’s impassioned Romantic gestures, as for its technical precision, ensemble balance, and tonal…
