Fred Sherry String Quartet
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Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4
Recordings supervised by Robert Craft
Fred Sherry String Quartet
the energy and eloquence of Fred Sherry and his colleagues ensure that the effect is never merely strenuous, never turgid. Though often aggressive, the music dances and sings...Thorough but... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet
Christopher Oldfather (piano) & Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano)
Fred Sherry String Quartet & Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Robert Craft
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Webern: Vocal & Chamber Works
Tony Arnold (soprano), Jacob Greenberg (piano), Claire Booth (soprano)
Fred Sherry String Quartet, Simon Joly Chorale, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sooyun Kim (flute), Charles Neidich (clarinet), Leila Josefowicz (violin), Fred Sherry (cello), Orion Weiss (piano), Robert Craft
What all the songs have in common...is brevity: each is a perfectly etched miniature, a nugget of impacted lyricism, and Arnold unwraps them with immense care. —
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The urgency is raw and immediate, occasionally hard-driven in an acoustic suggesting confined spaces and close interactions; the result is undeniably exciting...With their experience of the... —
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Schoenberg: Selected Works
Jennifer Welch-Babbidge (soprano)
Simon Joly Singers, Fred Sherry Quartet, 20th Century Ensemble, Robert Craft
The Suite in G for string orchestra (1934) is actually subtitled 'in the old style'… The final Gigue is the most immediately appealing movement but Robert Craft directs a sprightly performance... —
