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Doric String Quartet - Robert Schumann: String Quartets, Op. 41 (2011)

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Doric String Quartet - Robert Schumann: String Quartets, Op. 41 (2011)

Doric String Quartet - Robert Schumann: String Quartets, Op. 41 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 74:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHAN 10692 | Recorded: 2011

Schumann's set of string quartets, Op. 41, his only published contribution to the genre remain a sheer masterpiece of 19th century chamber music repertoire. Esteemed theorist & composer Moritz Hauptmann said: 'His [Schumann's] first, which delighted me immensely, made me marvel at his talent… it is cleverly conceived and held together, and a great deal of it is very beautiful'. The works are performed by the Doric String Quartet, among the most impressive of the young quartets on the classical music scene today.

Doric String Quartet - Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 1 (2023)

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Doric String Quartet - Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 1 (2023)

Doric String Quartet - Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 1 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 626 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 363 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:37:58
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

The Doric String Quartet is firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, receiving enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics around the globe. Celebrating their 25th anniversary, the Quartet here embarks on a significant new recording project – the complete string quartets by Beethoven. This first volume combines works from Beethoven’s early, middle, and late period.

Doric String Quartet & Timothy Ridout - Mendelssohn: The String Quintets (2022)

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Doric String Quartet & Timothy Ridout - Mendelssohn: The String Quintets (2022)

Doric String Quartet & Timothy Ridout - Mendelssohn: The String Quintets (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 280 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:34
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

The Doric String Quartet is firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, receiving enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics around the globe. Following their acclaimed recordings of Mendelssohn’s string quartets, here the quartet is joined by leading violist Timothy Ridout for an album of Mendelssohn’s two string quintets. These were written at the beginning and end of his short but remarkable compositional life. Mendelssohn composed No. 1 in 1826, shortly before the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, when he was just seventeen. No. 2 was written in 1845, when he was thirty-six, a year before the première of Elijah and just two years before his death.

Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.76 (2016) 2CDs

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Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.76 (2016) 2CDs

Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.76 (2016) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 640 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 340 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10886 | Time: 02:26:59

This is the second volume in the Doric String Quartet’s series devoted to Haydn’s String Quartets. Op. 76 turned out to be the last full set of six string quartets that Haydn was to compose. While they were written over the period 1796-97, they were not published until 1799. They had been commissioned by Count Joseph Erdödy, and such arrangements often entailed, as in this case, a period of time during which the works were reserved for that person’s exclusive use and enjoyment. The composition of Op. 76 coincided with Haydn’s work on Die Schöpfung and the first few of the six masses which Haydn wrote for the name day of Princess Maria Hermenegild Esterházy, and one can readily imagine that such compositional preoccupations rubbed off onto the composition of the quartets. However, that cannot be equated with a particular predominant ‘opus character’, a feature of some of Haydn’s previous sets. Rather – like Op. 20, also recently recorded by the Doric String Quartet (CHAN10831(2)) – the quartets seem to be most remarkable for their sheer variety.

Doric String Quartet - William Walton: String Quartets (2011)

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Doric String Quartet - William Walton: String Quartets (2011)

Doric String Quartet - William Walton: String Quartets (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 256 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN10661 | Time: 01:02:16

The Doric gives outstanding, virtuoso performances of William Walton’s two string quartets. The first of them, formidable in its technical demands and harmonic language, is virtually unrecognisable from the Walton of maturity, embracing as it does the avant-garde ideas he flirted with in his youth. Walton said it was “full of undigested Bartók and Schoenberg”, but, when played with such panache, it provides a pungent contrast to the clarity and spry rhythmic sparring of the later A minor Quartet.

Doric String Quartet - Schubert: String Quartets (2012)

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Doric String Quartet - Schubert: String Quartets (2012)

Doric String Quartet - Schubert: String Quartets (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 73:55 | 330 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: CHAN 10737

On this new release, the Doric String Quartet turns to the music of Franz Schubert. It is the Quartet's fifth solid release for Chandos. MusicWeb International said of the recent Korngold release, 'The Doric Quartet seem to have a Midas touch, and any repertoire they commit to disc comes out sparkling'. Their Schumann release was 'Recording of the Month' in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.

Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)

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Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)

John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)
Doric String Quartet; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Peter Oundjian, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA5199 | Time: 01:11:23

As part of his final year as Music Director and following a two-season celebration of the Orchestra’s 125th anniversary, Peter Oundjian and the RSNO here present their second recording of music by John Adams, with the exceptional participation of the Doric String Quartet. Written for a large orchestra including six percussionists, keyboard sampler, and amplified steel-string guitar, Naive and Sentimental Music is a sweepingly symphonic masterpiece, full of contrasts and clashes. It reflects the dichotomy between ‘naive’ and ‘sentimental’ poetry as analysed by Friedrich Schiller in his 1795 essay Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung, as well as the ‘bipolar’ musical life of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the dedicatee of this piece, who conducted the first performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1999. Absolute Jest is a large-scale scherzo for amplified string quartet and orchestra, heavily inspired by the music of Beethoven, which Adams has always deeply admired. The quartet of soloists, a late addition to the score, emphasises the echoes of Beethoven’s music (mainly his string quartets) and facilitates a ‘hyperspace rate’ of virtuosity, which the Doric String Quartet here perfectly demonstrates.

Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.20 (2014) 2CDs

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Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.20 (2014) 2CDs

Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.20 (2014) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 655 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 350 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10831 | Time: 02:30:03

Haydn’s six Op. 20 string quartets are milestones in the history of the genre. He wrote them in 1772 for performance by his colleagues at the Esterházy court and, unusually, not specifically for publication. Each one is a unique masterpiece and the set introduces compositional techniques that radically transformed the genre and shaped it for centuries to come. Haydn overturns conventional instrumental roles, crafts remarkably original colours and textures, and unlocks new expressive possibilities in these works which were crucial in establishing the reputation of purely instrumental music. The range within the quartets is kaleidoscopic. From the introspective, chorale-like slow movement of No. 1 via the terse and radical quartet No. 3 in G minor to the comic spirit of the fourth in D major, each of the quartets inhabits a distinct musical world. For many, this is some of the greatest music Haydn ever wrote. Playing these seminal works is one of the world’s finest young ensembles, the Doric String Quartet.

Doric String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Volume 2 (2021)

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Doric String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Volume 2 (2021)

Doric String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Volume 2 (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 417 Mb | Total time: 89:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 20257(2) | Recorded: 2020

Following an exceptional critical reception of their first volume of Mendelssohn Quartets, the Doric String Quartet now completes the project. As in the case of the previous volume, the players juxtapose one of the early quartets (No. 2) with two of the later compositions (Nos 3 and 4), composed a decade or so later. Composed in 1827, the Second Quartet pays homage to Beethoven’s outstanding contribution to the genre (Beethoven died in March of that year), but this is no simple pastiche. It is a confident work, Mendelssohn’s individual voice already clearly present. The later quartets are perhaps less overtly revolutionary – Mendelssohn was now an established figure and a recipient of Royal commissions – but nevertheless remain clear milestones in the development of the genre.

Doric String Quartet, Allison Bell - Brett Dean: Epitaphs; String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (2015)

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Doric String Quartet, Allison Bell - Brett Dean: Epitaphs; String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (2015)

Brett Dean - Epitaphs; String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (2015)
Doric String Quartet; Allison Bell, soprano; Brett Dean, viola

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 234 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 145 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Contemporary | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10873 | Time: 01:01:50

Brett Dean is not shy about revealing what his music is ‘about’. Whether inspired by certain individuals (as in Epitaphs), or by an ecological or human disaster (as in his String Quartet No. 1, on the now all too topical plight of refugees), Dean’s works are usually – perhaps invariably – driven by extra-musical narratives. Rather than tease out any innate structural puzzles or tensions, his music typically falls into short little dramatic narratives – no movement on this disc lasts as long as eight minutes, many of them rather less than five. The most obviously successful work here is Quartet No. 2, ‘And once I played Ophelia’, effectively a dramatic scena. Its soprano soloist is no mere extra voice (as in Schoenberg’s Second Quartet) but the leading protagonist. Allison Bell’s genuinely affecting performance is backed by the Doric Quartet’s expressionist scampering and sustained harmonies, the strings occasionally coming to the fore in the manner of a Schumann-style song postlude.

Doric String Quartet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - The Prussian Quartets (2021)

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Doric String Quartet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - The Prussian Quartets (2021)

Doric String Quartet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - The Prussian Quartets (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 411 Mb | Total time: 90:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 20249(2) | Recorded: 2020

Having concluded its Haydn cycle, the Doric String Quartet plunges into Mozart, beginning late in the composer's career with the three so-called "Prussian" string quartets. These are noted for having been written at the behest of a cello-playing nobleman, for whom Mozart wrote especially elaborate cello parts. Those are placed in the service of dense contrapuntal webs that pose unusual challenges for the performers. Should these quartets be severe? Light-hearted? There is quite a range, probably more than for the other Mozart quartets.

Doric String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2021)

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Doric String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2021)

Doric String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 372 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 209 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:29:22
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Following an exceptional critical reception of their first volume of Mendelssohn Quartets, the Doric String Quartet now completes the project. As in the case of the previous volume, the players juxtapose one of the early quartets (No. 2) with two of the later compositions (Nos 3 and 4), composed a decade or so later. Composed in 1827, the Second Quartet pays homage to Beethoven’s outstanding contribution to the genre (Beethoven died in March of that year), but this is no simple pastiche. It is a confident work, Mendelssohn’s individual voice already clearly present. The later quartets are perhaps less overtly revolutionary – Mendelssohn was now an established figure and a recipient of Royal commissions – but nevertheless remain clear milestones in the development of the genre.

Nicholas Daniel & Doric String Quartet - British Oboe Quintets (2021)

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Nicholas Daniel & Doric String Quartet - British Oboe Quintets (2021)

Nicholas Daniel & Doric String Quartet - British Oboe Quintets (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 279 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:32
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

The legendary British oboist Leon Goossens inspired all the composers represented on this recording, and all but one of the pieces were written for his oboe, on which he premièred the works by Delius, Bax, Bliss, and Finzi. The piece by Vaughan Williams is arranged for cor anglais, but it was on his own precious instrument that Goossens would première Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto, in 1944. Nicholas Daniel has, with special permission from Goossens’s daughter Jennie, recorded Delius’s Two Interludes on Goossens’s (now 110-year-old) oboe, rather than his own modern oboe, and contributes a fascinating booklet note on the influence and experience of playing this instrument.

Doric String Quartet - Benjamin Britten: String Quartets; Henry Purcell: String Fantasias (2019)

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Doric String Quartet - Benjamin Britten: String Quartets; Henry Purcell: String Fantasias (2019)

Doric String Quartet - Benjamin Britten: String Quartets; Henry Purcell: String Fantasias (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 506 Mb | Total time: 111:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 20124(2) | Recorded: 2018

Founded in 1998 at Pro Corda, Suffolk, the multi-award-winning Doric String Quartet describes recording Brittens quartets as a significant milestone: In our recording we have endeavoured to tread a line that brings out the humanity in these works but also recognises the need for distance and fragility. This is very personal and intimate music, yet also world-encompassing and timeless. The Quartet continues: Another feature of this recording is that Hélène Clément, our violist, is playing on Benjamin Brittens own viola. This instrument (on loan from the Britten-Pears Foundation) was made in 1843 in Milan by Francesco Guissani. It was previously owned by the composer Frank Bridge who gave it to Britten, as a departure gift when Britten and Pears set sail for the USA in 1939. ​

Doric String Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 33 (2020)

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Doric String Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 33 (2020)

Doric String Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 33 (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 583 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 301 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:08:07
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Composed in the summer and autumn of 1781, Haydn’s Op. 33 Quartets were dedicated to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia and premiered on Christmas Day that year in the apartment of the Duke’s wife, the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna. Nicknamed ‘the Russian quartets’, Op. 33 were some of Mozart’s favourites among Haydn’s works, and inspired Mozart to write his own set of six quartets, of 1785, dedicated to Haydn.