zoltan kodaly

Hyperion Records Spotify Launch - Round 1 - 3

Favorite String Quartets

Bela Bartok

String Quartets XX Century

Recorded April 2013 
Ewald Cheung, violin
Dominic Painchaud, cello
Jeremy Vanslyke, sound engineer

Kodaly, Sonata For Violin And Cello - I - Allegro Serioso Non Troppo

Music: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2 — III. Presto
Composer: Zoltán Kodály
Artist: Alexander String Quartet
Album: Bartók & Kodály
Label: Foghorn Classics

iTunes: http://bit.ly/GJCLFa
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1brzUyn
Allegro Classical: http://bit.ly/BartokKodaly

The Alexander String Quartet brings to life the complete quartets of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in this new 3-CD release. Contemporaries and fellow ethnomusicologist-composers, Bartók and Kodály wrote some of the most beautiful, beguiling, and ultimately influential string quartet music of the 20th century. Producer and multiple Grammy® winner Judith Sherman captured the recordings of these eight quartets under superb conditions, performed on the Ellen M. Egger Quartet of instruments by luthier Francis Kuttner.

Kodály String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2 — III. Presto

Music: Excerpt from String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10  — II Andante: Quasi recitativo — Allegro giocoso
Composer: Zoltán Kodály
Artist: Alexander String Quartet
Album: Bartók & Kodály
Label: Foghorn Classics

iTunes: http://bit.ly/GJCLFa
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1brzUyn
Allegro Classical: http://bit.ly/BartokKodaly

The Alexander String Quartet brings to life the complete quartets of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in this new 3-CD release. Contemporaries and fellow ethnomusicologist-composers, Bartók and Kodály wrote some of the most beautiful, beguiling, and ultimately influential string quartet music of the 20th century. Producer and multiple Grammy® winner Judith Sherman captured the recordings of these eight quartets under superb conditions, performed on the Ellen M. Egger Quartet of instruments by luthier Francis Kuttner.

Kodály: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10  — II (excerpt)

Free form improvisation based on Mikrokosmos by Bela Bartok.
4 track analog recording with Ivor Rubio, Francesca Sorrentino and Alberto Santos

The As Yet Unnamed Bartok Project 1

4 track analog recording with Ivor Rubio, Francesca Sorrentino and Alberto Santos.
Free form improvisation based on Mikrokosmos by Bela Bartok.

The As Yet Unnamed Bartok Project 2

Bela Bartok  Rumanian Folk Dances, Jocul Cu Bata

Philip Glass, Company III

Jonathan Besser, Zesty IV

Jade String Quartet
"Snapshots"
Miranda Adams- violin
William Hanfling- violin
Robert Ashworth- viola
Claudia Price- cello
www.jadestringquartet.co.nz

Philip Glass, Company I

Philip Glass, Company II

Zoltan Kodaly Sonata Cello Solo op. 8,  1er Movimiento

Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes & Suite No. 2

13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 4 in E Minor

13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 2 in B-Flat Minor

Rachmaninov: The Complete Preludes - Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7 & 8

13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 1 in C Major

06  Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) - Quartetto N°2 Op.17 Sz67-  Moderato

Recorded live at CSU Stanislaus April 3, 2014

Philip Glass String Quartet No. 5

Performed live at Center for New Music, San Francisco on December 5, 2014.

Audio by Zach Miley

Radiohead - Exit Music(for a film) arr. Doug Machiz

Recorded by Friction Quartet in 2015.

Inspired by two prison work songs recorded at Angola State Prison in the 1940’s by John and Alan Lomax titled Rosie and Take This Hammer.