CONCERT: THE BRODSKY QUARTET
ONE NIGHT ONLY: TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY
The Print Room present
Petit Fours - Brodsky Quartet's CD launch
"The Brodsky Quartet are the team
for the new century" Gramophone
The Brodsky Quartet perform music from Petit
Fours - their first CD on the Chandos label, to be released in
February 2012. This album is in celebration of the quartet's fortieth
anniversary and is an entertaining and original collection of some of the many
encores that they have arranged and performed over the years. The concert also
includes a sneak preview of their second CD - a collection of Debussy works
which is due to be released in April 2012.
The Brodsky Quartet are: Daniel Rowland, violin
Ian Belton, violin
Paul Cassidy, viola
Jacqueline Thomas, cello
Programme:
Elgar: Chanson de Matin
Prokofiev: March from The Love for Three Oranges
De Falla: Nana/Polo
Debussy: String Quartet
28 February, 7.30pm
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The Brodsky Quartet is at the forefront of the international chamber music
scene. Their love and mastery of the traditional string quartet repertoire is
evident from their highly acclaimed performances of composers ranging from
Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich, Bartok, Britten and
Respighi, as well as from their extensive, award-winning discography.
The Quartet are widely celebrated for their pioneering work with a diverse
range of performing artists, including singers Elvis Costello, Sting, Anne
Sofie von Otter, Dawn Upshaw and Björk, instrumentalists Michael Collins, Joan
Enric Lluna, Martin Roscoe, Alexander Baillie, Tunde Jegede, Complicite Theatre
Company and Icelandic poet Sjon, while their many collaborations with
distinguished composers, including Sir John Tavener, Witold Lutoslawski, Peter
Sculthorpe, Django Bates, Sally Beamish, Dave Brubeck and Peter Maxwell Davies,
have given them an unrivalled opportunity to influence and inspire some of the
newest work for string quartet. Their passion to embrace "all good
music" has been the driving force behind their success and has kept their
approach fresh and their enthusiasm high since their formation in 1972.
Recent awards for recording include the Diapason D'Or and the CHOC du Monde de
la Musique for their recordings of string quartets by Britten, Beethoven and
Janacek, whilst for their outstanding contribution to innovation in programming
the Brodsky Quartet has received a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. They have
taught at many international chamber music courses and held residencies in
several music institutes, including the first such post at the University of
Cambridge. They currently hold the International Chair of Chamber Music at the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and have been awarded Honorary
Doctorates at the University of Kent and University of Teesside.
The Quartet is named after the great Russian violinist Adolf Brodsky, dedicatee
of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto and passionate chamber musician, who played an
important role in musical life in 1920s Manchester and at the Royal Northern
College of Music where the Quartet studied.