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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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May Mozart’s Last Quartets Live Long and Prosper
Music critic Jerry Dubins offers a preview from his upcoming Fanfare review of our Mozart: The Final Quartets, Apotheosis, Vol. 2 recording: “…the Alexander [String Quartet] offers a take on these works that is suffused with feelings of warmth, mellowness, and tenderness that come from maturity—maturity in this case of both the composer and the…
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Available NOW – Mozart: The String Quartets – Apotheosis, Vol. 2
The latest release from the Alexander String Quartet, Mozart Apotheosis, Vol. 2 is now available for streaming, download, and CD purchase! “these are by far, hands down and feet up, the most amazing performances of Mozart’s two piano quartets that have ever graced these ears.” —Jerry Dubins, Fanfare Magazine “the Alexanders sound probing and sympathetic,…
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Pre-order Mozart: The Piano Quartets — Apotheosis, Vol. 2
Mozart: The Piano Quartets — Apotheosis, Vol. 2 Now Available for Pre-Order on Amazon Maintaining focus on Mozart’s last years, members of the Alexander String Quartet join with electrifying and much-lauded pianist Joyce Yang on this recording of the two piano quartets. This is the second of a three-volume set which will include many of…
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Mozart Festival at Baruch College
The Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC) presents the Alexander String Quartet in two concerts, Wednesday, May 3 and Friday, May 5 while the Aaron Silberman Concert Series presents a Community Preview Matinee on Thursday, May 4. Each evening showcases BPAC’s quartet-in-residence performing two all-Mozart programs along with Cliburn silver-medalist Joyce Yang. On Wednesday, May 3,…
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New Year Reflections
Once again another year has flown by for the Alexander String Quartet. 2016 has been another great year spanning the end of 35th and into our 36th seasons. We spent the actual anniversary of our first concert (August 4th) spread from pillar to post. Fred was in Boston visiting family, Paul was keeping the home…
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Apotheosis — In The Studio
A look in at Fantasy Studios as producer Wieslaw Pogorzelski (on monitor via Skype from Warsaw) and engineer Alberto Hernandez work with Zakarias Grafilo and Sandy Wilson on our upcoming recording, “Apotheosis — Mozart: The Four Final Quartets”:
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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):
