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Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores
Brodsky Quartet (string quartet), Laura van der Heijden, Julian Jacobson
The result – lovingly presented and played with consummate finesse – is like a selection box of handmade musical confectionery. What strikes you first is the seriousness and craft with which...
Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores
Brodsky Quartet (string quartet), Laura van der Heijden, Julian Jacobson
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The result – lovingly presented and played with consummate finesse – is like a selection box of handmade musical confectionery. What strikes you first is the seriousness and craft with which...
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Since its formation in 1972 the Brodsky Quartet has performed more than 3000 concerts on the major concert stages of the world and has released more than seventy recordings. A natural curiosity and insatiable desire to explore have propelled the group in many artistic directions and continue to ensure it not only a place at the very forefront of the international chamber music scene but also a rich and varied musical existence.
The cellist, Jacqueline Thomas, writes: ‘The Brodsky Quartet celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2022. Looking back, I find it wonderful that ten- and twelve-year-olds were already infused with passion and with a belief in the longevity that is now playing out. Two of us remain from the beginning; one joined as we turned professional, forty years ago, and our new fourth member has trodden her own similar path in the endlessly fulfilling life that is the string quartet. It has become something of a tradition that we release a compilation disc once every ten years, and so now, in our Golden Anniversary year, we have assembled a playlist from past and new arrangements, taking inspiration from the old days and even revamping some of our childhood efforts.’
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- Arr. for String Quartet by Andrew Haveron
- Brodsky Quartet
- Brodsky Quartet, Julian Jacobsen
- Arr. for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy
- Brodsky Quartet
- Arr. for String Quartet by Krysia Osostowicz
- Brodsky Quartet
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May 2023
The result – lovingly presented and played with consummate finesse – is like a selection box of handmade musical confectionery. What strikes you first is the seriousness and craft with which the members of the group have gone about choosing and transcribing works from other mediums.