PORTLAND STRING QUARTET
The Portland Quartet’s Complete String Quarets of Walter Piston is…”one of the most distinguished cycles in the recorded annals of American chamber music” -High Fidelity Magazine
“The Portland Quartet are certainly among the first rank of quartets in America today “
“…(their) performances are nothing short of revelatory.”
-The New Records Magazine
Download sampe mp3’s:
ERNEST BLOCH – String Quartet #1 track 3
ANTONIN DVORAK – Quartet in F Major, Movement #4
WALTER PISTON – String Quartet #1 track 3
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Discography of the Portland String Quartet
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN – The Art of the Fugue
Arabesque Z6519-2
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN – String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
Northeastern Custom Series 101*
BLOCH, ERNEST – String Quartet No. 1
Arabesque Z6543
BLOCH, ERNEST – String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3
Arabesque Z6626
BLOCH, ERNEST – String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5
Arabesque Z6627
BLOCH, ERNEST – The Quintets for Piano and Strings with Paul Posnak
Arabesque Z6618
BRAHMS, JOHANNES – String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1
Northeastern Custom Series 101*
BRITTON, DOROTHY GUYVER- Chinoiserie: Historie d’un Amour Oriental
with Rita Noel, mezzo-soprano
Arabesque Z6632
CHADWICK, GEORGE WHITEFIELD – String Quartet Nos. 1 and 2
Northeastern NR236-CD*
CHADWICK, GEORGE WHITEFIELD – String Quartet No. 3 and the Quintet for Piano and Strings with Virginia Eskin
Northeastern NR235-CD*
CHADWICK, GEORGE WHITEFIELD – String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5
Northeastern NR234-CD*
DVORAK, ANTONIN – String Quartet Op. 16 and Piano Quintet Op. 81with Virginia Eskin (Arabesque Z6660)
DVORAK, ANTONIN – Quartet in F. Major, Op. 96, “American,” and Quintet for Strings and Double Bass with Gary Karr
Arabesque Z6558
KREISLER, FRITZ – String Quartet in A Minor
Arabesque Z6521
LEVINES, THOMAS ALLEN – Travel Journal for String Quartet with Toshiyuki Shimada, narrator
Arabesque Z6632
MARTINU, BOHUSLAV – Fantasia for Theremin, Oboe, Piano and Strings with Lydia Kavina, Kristen Fox and Carol Eaton Elowe
1999 Mode – Music from the Ether
PISTON, WALTER – String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 and 3
Northeastern NR 9001 CD*
PISTON, WALTER – String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5 and the Flute Quintet with Doriot Anthony Dwyer
Northeastern NR 9002 CD*
PISTON, WALTER – Quintet for Pianoforte and String Quartet with Leonard Hokanson
Northeastern NR 232 CD*
SCHUBERT, FRANZ – String Quartet in D Minor, “Death and the Maiden” and Quartettsatz in C Minor
Arabesque Z6521
STRAUSS, RICHARD – String Quartet in A Major, Op. 2
Arabesque Z6521
TORKANOWSKY, WERNER – String Quartet 1977
Orion Master Recordings ORS 81421
- available exclusively through the Portland String Quartet [email protected]
