NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY : Complete String Quartets 3 • Quartets Nº 7 & 8 (The Taneyev Quartet) (2007) St. Petersburg Musical Archive Series | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950)
1-4. String Quartet No.7 In F Major, Op. 55 (1941)    
5-7. String Quartet No.8 In F Sharp Minor, Op. 59 (1942)    
Cover – Boris Kustodiev, Winter : Shrovetide Merry-Making, 1919
Taneyev Quartet :
Cello  – Josif Levinzon
Viola  – Vissarion Solovyev
Violin – Grigory Lutsky, Vladimir Ovcharek 

NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY : Complete String Quartets 4 • Quartets Nº 9, 10 & 11 (The Taneyev Quartet) (2007) St. Petersburg Musical Archive Series | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

The fourth volume in Northern Flowers' reissues of the Taneyev Quartet's recordings of the string quartets by Russian composer Nikolay Myaskovsky joins together his Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh works in the genre. All three come from the later years of the Great Patriotic War, but only the Ninth in D minor was entirely conceived and executed then. The Tenth in F major and the Eleventh in E flat major were conceived much earlier: the Tenth is a rewritten version of an unpublished youthful quartet, while much of the Eleventh is purloined from songs and short piano pieces written in the '30s. This means that only the restless and impassioned Ninth Quartet is recognizable as a work by Myaskovsky, while the Tenth and Eleventh seem too cheerful and ingratiating to be by the usually gloomy composer. As always in this series, the Taneyev Quartet gives its all to the music. Though its all does not always include a tight ensemble or a unified approach to intonation, it does include an ardent sense of phrasing and a sympathetic feeling for Myaskovsky's music, qualities that count for a lot in these otherwise unrecorded works. Recorded in the early '80s, the stereo sound here is plain, direct, and unadorned. James Leonard
Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950)
1-3. String Quartet No. 9 In D Major, Op. 62 (1943)
4-7. String Quartet No. 10 In F Major, Op. 67, No. 1 (1907-1945)
8-11. String Quartet No. 11 In E Flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2 (1945)
Cover – Boris Kustodiev, Spring, 1921
Taneyev Quartet :
Cello  – Josif Levinzon
Viola  – Vissarion Solovyev
Violin – Grigory Lutsky, Vladimir Ovcharek 

NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY : Complete String Quartets 5 • Quartets Nº 12 & 13 (The Taneyev Quartet) (2007) St. Petersburg Musical Archive Series | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950)
1-4. String Quartet No. 12 In G Major, Op. 77 (1947)
5-8. String Quartet No. 13 In A Minor, Op. 86 (1949)
Cover – Boris Kustodiev, Bathing, 1921
Taaneyev Quartet :
Cello  – Josif Levinzon
Viola  – Vissarion Solovyev
Violin – Grigory Lutsky, Vladimir Ovcharek

MAX REGER — Organ Works Vol. 1 (Gerhard Weinberger) 2CD (2014) SACD Hybrid | FLAC (tracks), lossless

Following the great success of our new complete recording – and the most comprehensive one ever – of Bach’s organ works (German Record Critics Prize for the Year 2009) Gerhard Weinberger now turns to a new edition featuring the organ compositions of Max Reger in performances on selected magnificent organs surviving from the Reger period. prestomusic
MAX REGER (1873-1916)
Tracklist :
CD1 recorded at Thomaskirche Leipzig, March 29-31, 2012.
CD2 recorded at Marienkirche Salzwedel, April 3-4, 2013.
Credits :
Organ – Gerhard Weinberger 
Cover – Christiane Grimm, Design – Lothar Bruweleit

MAX REGER — Organ Works Vol. 2 (Gerhard Weinberger) 2CD (2015) SACD Hybrid | FLAC (tracks), lossless

Gerhard Weinberger has launched a complete recording of Reger’s organ oeuvre on cpo: an auspicious beginning. In this repertoire too, he proves to be an extraordinary interpreter with both virtuosity and discerning nuance. prestomusic
MAX REGER (1873-1916)
Tracklist :
CD1 recorded Dom zu Verden a.d. Aller, September 3 & 4, 2010.
CD2 recorded at Eglise Saint Martin Dudelange, March 31-April 3, 2011.
Credits :
Organ – Gerhard Weinberger 
Cover – Christiane Grimm, Design – Lothar Bruweleit