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Brodsky Quartet BRODSKY QUARTET FAVOURITE ENCORES Eric Richmond Eric Brodsky Quartet Petits-fours: Favourite Encores premiere recordings (except*) Pablo de Sarasate (1844 – 1908) 1 Playera 4:42 No. 1 from Spanische Tänze, Op. 23 for Violin and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Lento Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946) 2 Polo 1:13 No. 7 from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas for Voice and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Andrew Haveron Vivo – A tempo, ma più mosso 3 Nana 3:14 No. 5 from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas for Voice and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Andrew Haveron Calmo e sostenuto 3 Pablo de Sarasate 4 Zapateado 3:35 No. 2 from Spanische Tänze, Op. 23 for Violin and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Allegro Sir Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934) 5 Chanson de matin, Op. 15 No. 2* 3:12 for Violin and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Allegretto 6 La Capricieuse, Op. 17 4:06 for Violin and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Molto moderato 7 Chanson de nuit, Op. 15 No. 1 4:11 for Violin and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Andante 4 Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904) 8 Humoresque 3:20 No. 7 from Humoresques, Op. 101, B 187 for Piano Arranged for String Quartet and Piano by Paul Cassidy Poco lento e grazioso Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) 9 Sehr langsam 3:13 No. 30 from Album für die Jugend, Op. 68 for Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Fritz Kreisler (1875 – 1962) 10 Caprice viennois, Op. 2† 4:15 for Violin and Piano Arranged for String Quartet and Viola by Paul Cassidy Allegro molto moderato – Andante con moto – Presto – Andante con moto 5 Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) 11 On Wings of Song 3:36 (‘Auf Flügeln des Gesanges’) No. 2 from Sechs Gesänge, Op. 34 for Voice and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Andante tranquillo Leopold Godowsky (1870 – 1938) 12 Alt-Wien 2:41 No. 11 from Triakontameron for Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Andante lusingando Robert Schumann 13 Von fremden Ländern und Menschen‡ 1:56 No. 1 from Kinderszenen, Op. 15 for Piano Arranged for String Quartet and Piano by Paul Cassidy 14 Curiose Geschichte‡ 1:12 No. 2 from Kinderszenen, Op. 15 for Piano Arranged for String Quartet and Piano by Paul Cassidy 6 15 Träumerei‡ 2:58 No. 7 from Kinderszenen, Op. 15 for Piano Arranged for String Quartet and Piano by Paul Cassidy Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) 16 Waltz No. 6 0:44 from Valses nobles et sentimentales for Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Vif 17 Blues 5:25 Second movement from Sonata in G major for Violin and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Andrew Haveron Moderato Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 – 1953) 18 March 1:39 from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33 Arranged for String Quartet by Andrew Haveron 7 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975) 19 Prelude 2:44 from Five Duets for Two Violins and Piano Edited by Konstantin Fortunatov (1915 – 1996) Arranged for String Quartet by Ian Belton Molto moderato – Poco più mosso – Tempo I 20 Waltz No. 2‡ 3:32 No. 7 from Suite for Variety Orchestra Edited by Levon Atovmian (1901 – 1973) Arranged for String Quartet and Piano by Jacqueline Thomas Achille-Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918) 21 Beau soir 2:56 for Voice and Piano Arranged for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy Andante ma non troppo – Più lento TT 66:04 Robert Smissen viola† Philip Edward Fisher piano‡ Brodsky Quartet Daniel Rowland violin Ian Belton violin Paul Cassidy viola Jacqueline Thomas cello 8 Petits-fours: The Brodsky Quartet at Forty The string quartet is blessed with one of the them – either by geographical orientation, richest and most extensive repertoires in by paying tribute to a certain composer, all of classical music, having been visited or by tying in with the era. Some are works by almost all the great composers through we enjoyed in childhood or which were every era. We do, however, miss out on one especially inspiring to us, either through genre – short ‘lollipops’ suitable for encores. the compositions themselves or through Most instrumentalists, vocalists, and even the experience of particular performances. orchestras have a wealth of short works at Many of the great string instrumentalists their disposal, which can be called upon to through history have brought these works give the audience a quick ‘thank you’ when to life for generations of music lovers – Fritz they want ‘More!’, whilst in our repertoire Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Josef Hassid, William there is only a handful of such delights. Primrose, Pablo Casals… – and we hope to pay We have never been satisfied with simply tribute to these musicians and to the great repeating one movement from within the tradition of café music and Old Vienna with work just heard, or from another, connected the spirit of some of these lovely works. work; the movements of string quartets Elgar’s famous parlour pieces are known thrive within the context of the work of which to violin students worldwide in the glorious they form a part and, anyway, are usually too interpretations of Josef Hassid and Yehudi long to make a satisfactory ‘bis’. So we have Menuhin; Mendelssohn’s exquisite song indulged a passion for arranging – borrowing (shorn of its words) was made famous by shamelessly some of the world’s most Heifetz. wonderful gems from the piano, orchestral, Being a string quartet, we like to keep a vocal, and instrumental repertoires, and we certain democracy in the individuals’ share present a recital of such arrangements now of the limelight, so everyone gets to join in in this celebratory album for our fortieth the fun in these arrangements: in Sarasate’s anniversary year. ‘Zapateado’ the fiddles are positively vying The works we choose to arrange are for supremacy as they try to outdo each other usually relevant to the concert preceding in pyrotechnics! The sense of machismo is 11 heightened when the foot-stamping begins, by Victoria de Los Angeles in Granada’s in the spirit of the Spanish dance of the Alhambra under a starry Andalusian sky; and title. Ravel’s brilliant banjo-style plucking in Debussy’s setting of verses by Paul Bourget the ‘Blues’ from the violin sonata gets to be conjures a dreamy impression of a ‘Beau Soir’ repeated throughout our arrangement, as it in the Midi. is passed from one player to the other; and We hope we would have the blessing counter-melodies in Godowsky’s ‘Alt-Wien’ of the composers whose beautiful works call to mind a gypsy band. we have borrowed for this disc, and are When we perform quintets there is often grateful to the various trusts and estates a celebratory atmosphere at the concert for allowing us to prepare and perform these and an encore is always a must. A few of the arrangements. jewels presented here have come out of the © 2012 Brodsky Quartet need for something to follow Mozart’s viola quintets or any of the many wonderful piano quintets in the repertoire. In Kreisler’s Caprice The violist Robert Smissen won a scholarship viennois the two violas get to shine, making a to Chetham’s School of Music at the age luscious duet of the sumptuous thirds, whilst of fourteen, and went on to study at the in the pieces from Schumann’s Kinderszenen Guildhall School of Music and Drama with the sparse texture is all the more touching David Takeno. While there, he won prizes when shadowed by the strings. At the other for chamber music and solo playing. After end of the spectrum, a Viennese-inspired college he was appointed principal viola with Waltz by Shostakovich allows the cello to the Northern Sinfonia, a post he held until take over – inserting quotes from the great 1986. Robert Smissen currently plays with man’s other works for the instrument – and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, as well leaves it able to fly free now that there is a as other London chamber orchestras. piano to take care of the bass line. Inspiration has also come from the great Recognised as a unique performer of refined vocalists and from opera and song, our style and versatility, the pianist Philip Edward versions of ‘Nana’ and ‘Polo’ from Falla’s Siete Fisher began his musical training at the canciones populares españolas having been age of nine, giving his concerto debut aged penned immediately following a memorable twelve, performing Shostakovich’s Second performance of the Seven Songs given Concerto at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. He 12 holds degrees from the Royal Academy of released more than sixty recordings. A natural Music and the Juilliard School and in 2001 curiosity and insatiable desire to explore received the Julius Isserlis Scholarship from have propelled the group in many artistic the Royal Philharmonic Society, one of the directions and continue to ensure it not only a most prestigious awards of its kind available place at the very forefront of the international to a British musician. He made his New York chamber music scene but also a rich and debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2002, performing varied musical existence. Its members share Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto, and has also a love and mastery of the traditional string appeared at the Merkin Concert Hall and at quartet repertoire that are evident from their the Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. He highly acclaimed performances of works by has performed at the Purcell Room, Wigmore composers ranging from Haydn, Beethoven, Hall, Barbican Centre, and Royal Festival Schubert, and Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich, Hall in London, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, and Bartók, Britten, and Respighi, as well as from Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow.
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