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Gramophone Magazine has praised the New Zealand String Quartet’s “generous, expressive style”. Check out their growing discography and listen to sound samples - music from Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bartók and many others including exciting new works from New Zealand composers.
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Selected movements recorded live with Péter Nágy (piano) on the Magical Mozart Tour, 2006.
"This CD celebrates Mozart's 250th year and offers highlights of the Magical Mozart Tour given by the NZSQ and pianist Péter Nágy throughout New Zealand in 2006. You will head movements from each of the set of six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, known as the "Haydn" Quartets, and from each of Mozart's great Piano Quartets. Recorded live on tour, these movements have been chosen especially to invite the listener into the genius of Mozart in all its guises. Inspired by the new way of writing for quartet that he heard in Haydn's Opus 33 Quartets, and by his weekly visits to his patron van Swieten's vast collection of Bach manuscripts, the mature Mozart is here heard at his most daring, breaking new ground with shocking dissonances, breathtaking virtuosity, masterful counterpoint, comic dialogue, profound introspective moods and infectious playfulness." - Rolf Gjelsten
Recording Producer: Wayne Laird
Engineer: Paul McGlashan
Editing and Mastering: Atoll
A CD recording of Zoltán Székely's Quartet (1937) and Antonín Dvořák's Quartet in Eb major Op 51.
2003 Atoll CD Ltd ACD 703
Producer: Wayne Laird
Engineer: Keith Warren
CD recording of Beethoven's String Quartets op 59, no. 2 and no. 3.
2002 Atoll CD Ltd ACD 402
Producer: Wayne Laird
Engineer: Mike Clayton
This album features exclusive recordings of three sparkling and energetic works for string quartet by Gareth Farr, performed by the New Zealand String Quartet. Owhiro (1993), Farr's first string quartet, was written while he was resident in Owhiro Bay in Wellington and composer-in-residence with Chamber Music New Zealand. Mondo Rondo is a highly animated work with clear references to his influence of percussion with hocketting effects and exotic tunes. Frenzy is a high-energy piece with a strong emphasis on rhythm, jaunty phrasing and gritty harmonies.
2000 HRL Morrison Music Trust Records
Producer: Murray Khouri
Engineer: Richard Hulse
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