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Jerry Dubins Reviews Brahms Quintets and Sextets in Fanfare
Fanfare Magazine’s Jerry Dubins (who interviewed Zak Grafilo and reviewed our Brahms & Schumann CD as well) gives high praise to our Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets CD: “Perhaps the most amazing aspect of this Sextet (B-flat Major) is the clarity of the textures and lines Brahms maintains throughout the work, in spite of…
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AllMusic Gives Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets a Rave
Critic, James Manheim, rates the new Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets highly in his new review on AllMusic.com: “But hear the way the innocent opening theme of the G major quintet’s first movement almost immediately becomes ensnared in extreme complexities, and the way the Alexander group (the two additional players on the album are…
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Brahms & Schumann: Piano Quintets a MusicWeb International Recording of the Month
Brian Reinhart has named the new Brahms & Schumann: Piano Quintets a MusicWeb International Recording of the Month! “On first listen, I thought, ‘I really, really like this CD’. … Then I started tallying up all the Alexander Quartet albums I now desperately want to purchase, and pitying my poor wallet. All that is a…
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Brahms & Schumann Piano Quintets Get Five Stars from Audiophile Audition
New Alexander String Quartet release, Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets with pianist Joyce Yang gets a new Five-Star Review from Audiophile Audition: “This recording under review is simply sensational—rarely have I had that kind of leap-out-of-your-seat experience with a work so tried and true, but this one did it, and the sound is exquisite…
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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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Don Clark takes a Gershwin & Kern Road Trip
Another stellar review from Pictures On Silence critic, Don Clark, for our Gershwin & Kern recording! “…faced with a trip home that would involve some late night driving, I grabbed some CDs to keep my mind alert and my bleary eyes open. One of my selections this time was a new disc sent for my…
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The Arts Desk Reviews Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets
Graham Rickson has his weekly Classical CD reviews up on The Arts Desk, and he’s got a rave for our new recording, Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets with Joyce Yang: “Schumann’s fiendish piano writing rarely lets up, and one of the joys of this beautifully nuanced performance from the San Francisco based Alexander Quartet…
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Buffalo News Reviews Slee Beethoven
The Buffalo News reviewed our Slee Beethoven Cycles saying “Technically and emotionally, quartet among best of Slee.” “The musicians were fine, and their interplay was just what you could hope for. Right from the quick, dramatic entrance of the group into Beethoven’s Quartet in F minor (op. 95) to the fading notes of the composer’s…
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Brahms & Schumann Piano Quintets a “Revelation”
Don Clark’s Pictures on Silence blog has a wonderful new review for our Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets recording with pianist Joyce Yang: “In a nutshell, these are gutsy, lively, exciting and maybe even a bit edgy performances. … The Alexander Quartet and Yang simply allow the composers’ youthful energy to shine through. ……
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Ensemble Magazine Reviews Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets
Ensemble Magazine has a wonderful feature of our new Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets recording with Joyce Yang. Below is an English translation of the German review: The Alexander String Quartet is particularly renowned for having helped build and establish numerous young and emerging professional string quartets at San Francisco’s State University yet unfortunately,…
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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…
