Tag: Toby Appel

  • The Arts Desk Reviews Brahms: The String Quintets and Sextets

    The Arts Desk on our new Brahms: The String Quintets and Sextets recording: “The Alexander Quartet never disappoint on disc, and they’re spectacularly good here. Listening to them ease into the the waltzing second subject of the Bb Sextet’s opening movement, or hearing guest violist Toby Appel sing out the Andante’s variation theme is a…

  • 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…

  • New Release — Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets

    Now Available for CD & Download! Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets The Alexander String Quartet; Toby Appel, viola; David Requiro, cello; The perennially beloved complete string quintets and sextets of Johannes Brahms, performed by the Alexander String Quartet with their cherished and beloved collaborators, violist Toby Appel and cellist David Requiro. These new recordings…

  • 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…

  • Weekend in New York

    The ASQ has a big weekend in New York with performances at Baruch College, Arts on the Lake, and the Sid Singer Concert Series, and guest artists for two of the concerts! Get all of the information below: Friday November 15, 2013 7:30 pm Baruch Performing Arts Center  Baruch College, City University of New York…

  • Highlights from the 2012-2013 Season

    It is a rare pleasure to be at home for a couple of weeks with no teaching or administrative obligations at San Francisco State University. I am relishing some slightly less structured family time as well as the opportunity to catch up on a variety of chores and deferred obligations that escape the ASQ members…

  • ASQ Weekend of Britten and Brahms

    ASQ has a busy weekend this weekend with two performances featuring the music of Britten and Brahms, and featuring guest violist Toby Appel! Friday, February 8 – 7:30pm Santa Rosa Junior College Chamber Concert Series – Emeritus Hall – Newman Auditorium Tickets: www.santarosa.edu Sunday, February 10 – 7:00pm Music at Kohl Mansion The Great Hall…

  • ASQ at Juilliard for the Lower String Seminar

    Just off-stage from an invigorating and wild reception to our Brahms Piano Quintet with Joyce Yang in the Engleman Recital Hall, the ASQ made a dash from CUNY-Baruch last Thursday to forge our way north to Juilliard in a rather wet rush-hour for Toby Appel’s Lower String Seminar (LSS). Happily we picked up a recently…

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