Composers: Dvořák
Compositions: String Quartet No 12, Piano Quintet
Performers: Alexander String Quartet, Joyce Yang p
Catalogue Number: Foghorn Classics FCL2020

Two of Dvořák’s most popular and attractive chamber works are paired here in a release by the excellent San Francisco-based Alexander Quartet on the Foghorn Classics label. The Alexanders – Zakarias Grafilo and Frederick Lifsitz, violins, Paul Yarbrough, viola, and Sandy Wilson, cello – celebrated their 35th anniversary in 2016 and over the past four decades they have established themselves as an elite ensemble in both the old and...