Performer: Brodsky Quartet, Laura van der Heijden, Julian Jacobsen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN20230
Release: 2023
Size: 2.42 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Debussy: Arabesque No. 2
02. Bach: Prelude in E minor, BWV855a
03. Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1
04. Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Quartet: Elegy, Op. 36a
05. Shostakovich: 2 Pieces for String Quartet – Polka
06. Debussy: Prélude VI
07. Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux: Le Cygne
08. Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from Gayane
09. Elgar: Adieu
10. Debussy: Arabesque No. 1
11. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’: Adagio sostenuto
12. Satie: Gnossienne No. 1
13. Satie: Gnossienne No. 2
14. Satie: Gnossienne No. 6
15. Joplin: Solace
16. Poulenc: Prélude
17. Debussy: Prélude IX
18. Casals: El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the birds)
19. Bazzini: La Ronde des lutins, Op. 25
20. Zebeljan: An Intimate Letter from the Judean Desert
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.’