Carducci String Quartet – Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 9 & 15 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:22 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Continuing their project to record all the Shostakovich string quartets, award-winning artists the Carducci Quartet return to Signum Classics for their third album of string quartets by Shostakovich.
Read moreKatona Twins & Carducci String Quartet – Vivaldi & Weiss: Concertos & Sonatas (2008/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:55 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Classical
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Classical guitarists Peter and Zoltán Katona have pleased many with music ranging from Bach to Piazzolla, often in their own arrangements.
Read moreCarducci String Quartet & Julian Bliss – Mozart & Weber: Clarinet Quintets (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:50 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Julian Bliss joins the Carducci String Quartet in performances of two seminal works – Weber’s Clarinet Quintet in B flat Major, Op. 34 and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581.
Both Mozart and Weber were inspired by the artistry of performers of their day (Anton Stadler in Mozart’s case, and Heinrich Baermann in Weber’s). Their technical prowess, tonal quality and imaginative range allowed each composer to expand the clarinet repertoire with these works, which remain pre-eminent in the genre.
This is the second recording collaboration between Bliss and the Carducci String Quartet, following the 2016 release of David Bruce’s Gumboots and Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet: “Here’s a double delight.
Read moreCarducci String Quartet – Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 7 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:26 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recording marks the second release of the Carducci’s Shostakovich 15 project, which includes performances of the complete cycles of the Shostakovich Quartets in cities including Washington DC, London, Oxford, Cardiff, Bogota and concerts throughout the UK to mark the 40th anniversary of the composer’s death.
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