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November 5, 2008

Contacts:
William David, (515) 292-2027 (wdavid@iastate.edu)
Steve Jones, Liberal Arts & Sciences Communications, (515) 294-0461 (jones@iastate.edu)

Ames Piano Quartet releases new album

AMES, Iowa – Albany Recordings released the 12th compact disc by the Ames Piano Quartet this month. Entitled La Muerte del Ángel, the title of a Piazzolla tango featured on the CD, it also includes works by Alexandre Tansman, Joaquin Turina, and Carlos Surinach. The latter two works have a strong Spanish flavor.

The Ames Piano Quartet is the resident chamber music ensemble of Iowa State University. Its members are William David, piano; Mahlon Darlington, violin; Jonathan Sturm, cello; and George Work, cello. All are members of the ISU Music Department faculty.

Two of the APQ’s other recent CDs were strongly praised by the well-known Internet classical music site allmusic.com. Of its recording of Czech works, the critic wrote: “The Ames Piano Quartet performs every work with amazing strength and total dedication. With a tight but flexible ensemble, strong but agile technique, and big, passionate tone, the Ames has what these works need to succeed.”

Of the Quartet’s two-CD set of British piano quartets, allmusic.com observed: “This collection of British piano quartets by the Ames Piano Quartet is a marvel and a wonder, a marvel that an ensemble from Iowa can so magnificently capture the quintessentially English quality of the music and a wonder that so much first-rate chamber music remains so far beyond the range of the standard repertoire.”

All Quartet CDs can be purchased through the Iowa State Music Department web site, from Amazon.com, from members of the Quartet or directly from the recording company.

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