Cypress String Quartet
Founded in 1996, the Cypress String Quartet became one of the most popular and innovative quartets on the U.S. West Coast, with a strong orientation toward contemporary music. The group disbanded in 2016.
The Cypress String Quartet gathered for the first time in the summer of 1996 and soon resolved to practice together for six to eight hours daily. The group's original members were violinists Cecily Ward and Tom Stone, violist Paul Wakabayashi, and cellist Jennifer Kloetzel; Wakabayashi was replaced by by Ethan Filner in 2001. At first, the members recalled, they would perform "at any venue that would hire the four of us," but their concert schedule grew to include some 100 concerts yearly, with tours to Mexico, major European countries, and Japan interspersed among U.S. performances.
The group's recorded catalog was particularly rich and encompassed both contemporary music and standard repertory. Their first album, Live: Call & Response 2000, containing works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Dan Coleman, was released on their own label in 2002. Call & Response was an annual event, active between 2000 and 2016, for which the group commissioned a new work that responded in some way to classical repertory and demonstrated its continuing influence. It later recorded for Summit, MinMax Music, and Naxos (among others, a fine 2009 release of quartets by the then 85-year-old Benjamin Lees) before signing with Avie and releasing a complete cycle of Beethoven's string quartets, recorded several years earlier under a Cypress Performing Arts Association aegis.
The relationship with Avie yielded several more releases, including The American Album (2013), a group of American string quartets, and a recording of Dvorák's rarely heard Cypresses for string quartet, recorded at Skywalker sound and released the same year. Releases on Avie continued to appear after the Cypress' 2016 farewell, with an album of Brahms sextets with Zuill Bailey and Barry Shiffman in 2017 and a set of the six string quartets of Elena Ruehr, also featuring the Borromeo String Quartet, the following year.
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Quatuors à cordes
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Naxos le 28 juil. 2009
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Elena Ruehr: Six String Quartets
Cypress String Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, Stephen Salters
Musique de chambre - Paru chez AVIE Records le 16 févr. 2018
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Schubert: String Quintet, D.956; Quartettsatz, D.703
Cypress String Quartet, Gary Hoffman
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Avie Records le 5 mai 2014
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Dvořák: Cypresses for String Quartet; String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 4 févr. 2013
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The 15th Anniversary Album
Quatuors - Paru chez Cypress Performing Arts Association le 1 oct. 2011
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Brahms: String Sextets
Cypress String Quartet, Barry Shiffman, Zuill Bailey
Musique de chambre - Paru chez AVIE Records le 30 sept. 2014
5 de Diapason16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
How She Danced: String Quartets of Elena Ruehr
Quatuors - Paru chez Cypress String Quartet le 3 févr. 2010
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Daniel Asia: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 and 3
Amernet String Quartet, Cypress String Quartet
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Summit Records le 5 avr. 2019
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Haydn, Ravel, Schulhoff
Classique - Paru chez Cypress String Quartet le 1 janv. 2002
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Cypress String Quartet: Debussy, Suk, Cotton
Classique - Paru chez Cypress String Quartet le 1 janv. 2006
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