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NewsGina McCormack to leave the Brodsky Quartet for family reasons
She will be replaced by the violinist Krysia Osostowicz
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ReviewBrodsky Quartet: Elgar
Deeply affecting performances of works that speak for the fallen generation
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ArticleShostakovich: Complete String Quartets
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: The Brodsky returns to Shostakovich's quartets with breathtaking successMusicians: Brodsky QuartetComposer: ShostakovichCatalogue number: CHANDOS CHAN 10917 (6 CDs) The Brodsky’s first complete Shostakovich cycle (recorded in 1989 for Teldec) was a notable achievement by any standards. Without inflicting the ...
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ReviewZemlinsky: Complete String Quartets
The Strad Issue: June 2015Description: The Brodskys brilliantly traverse Zemlinsky’s quartets from A to ZMusicians: Brodsky QuartetComposer: ZemlinskyHearing all Zemlinsky’s quartets in one go provides an aural mini-biography of the composer and his influences: the unnumbered 1893 E minor Quartet and no.1 (1896) see him already enlarging ...
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ReviewMessages. A. Panufnik: String Quartets no.1, no.2 ‘Messages’ & no.3 ‘Wycinanki’, Song to the Virgin Mary (arr. A. Panufnik)1, Prayer (arr. R. Panufnik). R. Panufnik Memories of My Father
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: A celebration of a composing father-and-daughter relationshipMusicians: Brodsky Quartet, Robert Smissen (viola) Richard May (cello)Composer: A. Panufnik, R. PanufnikReleased to mark the centenary of Andrzej Panufnik’s birth, this disc features all three of his string quartets, a form he resisted until his ...
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ArticleJanácek: String Quartets no.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ & no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’, Pohádka, Violin Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Brodsky Quartet, MartinuCousin (piano)Composer: JanácekBritish players have been involved with Janá?cek’s chamber music since the famous Wigmore Hall concert of 6 May 1926, in the composer’s presence. It is wonderful that so many now play his music – but whether they should ...