Archos Quartet - Complete String Quartet 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The first recording for some twenty years by a performer whose pioneering version of the Bliss Piano Concerto for EMI in the 1960s (now re-issued on Divine Art 24106) drew undiluted praise. Trevor plays the great Bach/Busoni transcriptions, Myra Hess' version of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring and (for the first time on CD) works by Australian composers Margaret Sutherland Felix Werder and Nigel Butterley.

Orford String Quartet - Complete Quartets 1 [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/11/1992

According to the composer and conductor Clarence Lucas, writing in 1935, Inchof the merits of d'Ambrosio... he always maintains his standard of elegance and never becomes commonplaceInch. By the way d'Ambrosio's instrumental music was highly appreciated by contemporaries and played by the most acclaimed interpreters of his time, though nowadays seems hélas almost neglected. Alfredo D'Ambrosio (Naples, June 13, 1871-Paris, December 28, 1914) was a Neapolitan violinist and composer studying in Naples Conservatoire with Eusebio Dworzak, Ferdinando Pinto, Enrico Bossi, then in Madrid with Pablo Sarasate and in London with August Wilhelmj. He then set up in Nice where for years he promoted the musical programs of the Club L'Artistique, with his Colleagues Harold Bauer and Jacques Thibaud, or playing in his own Quartet with his cousin Luigi d'Ambrosio (violinist and later teacher of Salvatore Accardo). The Archos Quartet guides us on a chronological path to the discovery of the compositions for quartet and quintet of strings, using the collaboration of two exceptional soloists Friedrich Thiele on the cello and Mio Tamayama on the double bass.