Reviews: CD: "Nicely performed and recorded.
...I recommend this collection" American Record
Guide. * Crescent Quartet (Vellère, Aderholdt, Schonthal,
Beach): "Music of genuine value...I found the disc a joy throughout."
Fanfare (LP review, Leonarda LP #LPI 111). *
"Fine mainstream works which have lain undiscovered far too long."
American Record Guide. * "As fresh and fascinating
a collection of modern string quartets as I have heard on a single disc."
The Washington Post. * "Highly recommended."
The New Records. * Alard Quartet: (Rainier):
"Rainier's music is far too good to continue to go unrecognized. This
quartet succeeds marvelously - full of awareness and life, occasionally
'primitive' in its sonorities, authentic and sturdy." Oakland
Tribune
Recording: Recording
producer and post-production: Marnie Hall. Recording engineers: Malcolm
Addey (Crescent Quartet), John Thomas (Alard Quartet). Recording venues:
First Hungarian Reformed Church, New York City, 1981 (Crescent Qrt.); Recital
Hall of the Music Building at Pennsylvania State University, State College,
Pennsylvania (Alard Qrt.), 1982. ADD. Support: This
recording is made possible with public funds from The New York State Council
on the Arts, a state agency. Additional generous support was provided by
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music. The original Rainier recording was funded
in part by The Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts. Music
Publishers: Vellere: We lost touch with daughter. Try the Performing
Rights Society for Belgium for information. Aderhold: Contact Leonarda for
information. Schonthal: FuroreVerlag in Kassel, Germany. Beach: Score and
parts are available from A-R Editions. Rainier: Schott, distributed in the
USA by European American Music. CD Cover: Jacquelyn
Thunfors, "Tulip Morning," © Jacquelyn Thunfors, 1992. For
information about her works, call 203-254-8594 or fax 203-256-1394 in Connecticut.
Graphic Design: Marnie Hall. © Leonarda
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