established by Adolph Brodsky in Manchester around 1895
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2024-04-22 10:01:00
Holst 150, complete Shostakovich quartets, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer: Lichfield Festival 2024
The Hub at St Mary's - Brodsky Quartet at Lichfield Festival, July 2023 (Photo: Tyler Whiting)The Lichfield Festival returns for ten days of classical, folk, world, jazz, cabaret and popular music, theatre, dance and the written word from 4 to 14 July 2024. The 2024 festival opens with Rachel Podger (violin) and her ensemble Brecon Baroque in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. A 150th anniversary celebration of Gustav Holst includes Egdon Heath from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft (along with Brahms and Elgar's Cello Concerto) and the Carice Singers’ Stargazers programme includes Holst's The Evening Watch. And there will be Holst arrangements from BBC Folk Musician of the Year Will Pound and percussionist Delia Stevens. Pianist Danny Driver plays two recitals, closing the Festival with candle-lit Bach in the Cathedral. Other chamber music highlights are the complete Shostakovich quartets from Brodsky Quartet spread over a single weekend, Oz Clarke and Armonico Consort’s […]
2023-09-29 07:02:00
The chance to deep dive into Dvořák's quartets: Michael Trainor of the Piatti Quartet introduces their new residency at Kings Place
[…] which conjures up images and narratives like these all the time, the music completely encapsulating something distinctly American. Indeed so much so that it has remained one of the most popular chamber works to this day and has lost none of its sheen nearly 130 years later. And so we will begin our journey as the new Resident Quartet on 25 October at Kings Place this season. We're taking over the baton from the Brodsky Quartet who have been resident there for 10 years and we'll certainly look to carry on their sense of adventure they bring to programming. In these Rush Hour Lates concerts at Kings Place we will present Dvořák's late string quartets and end with the brilliant Piano Quintet No.2 in A major with pianist Emmanuel Despax. With the quartets, No.12 'The American' and No.13 in G major we know very well- in fact No.13 […]
2022-11-04 00:00:00
Butterworth, Gurney, Vaughan Williams et al: English Song Cycles (Benjamin Luxon, Roderick Williams et al)
[…] No.8, No.9 & No.10 [9'51]25 Requiescat [3'06]26 - 30 Bredon Hill and other songs [16'10]Mark Stone- baritone and Stephen Barlow- pianoStone Records 5060192780024 [recorded December 2009; issued 2010][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, U.K.Recording engineer and producer: Richard SutcliffeSadly, the film bonus is not included in the digital download.On Wenlock EdgeRalph Vaughan Williams:01 - 06 On Wenlock Edge [23'08]Daniel Norman- tenor, Sholto Kynoch- piano & Brodsky Quartet [Daniel Rowland and Ian Belton- violins, Paul Cassidy- viola, Jacqueline Thomas- cello]Stone Records 5060192780901 [recorded January 2019; issued 2019][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: SJE Arts, Oxford, UKRecording engineer: David Hinitt; Producer: Adrian PeacockThis pioneering recording of many of the settings of A E Housman's A Shropshire Lad poems was made in 1979 and issued as a two LP set. This single CD selection is all that has […]
2022-07-13 07:45:47
Autumn season at Stoller Hall: from Steven Isserlis to Mozart Made in Manchester to Azeri composer and pianist Isfar Sarabski
[…] Mendelssohn, Schumann, Moscheles and Chopin, and Italian neo-classical composer and pianist Fabrizio Paterlini will be performing a programme of his own music. Contralto Jess Dandy and pianist Martin Roscoe will be performing music by Amy Beach, RVW, De Falla, Ravel and Strauss. Pianist James Willshire is performing a nature-inspired programme (as part of the hall's Sounds of Nature programme) with Couperin, Debussy, Messiaen, Ravel and Liszt.The Heath Quartet performs music by Purcell, Britten and Schubert, whilst the Brodsky Quartet will be performing Borodin, Shostakovich, and Barber. Clarinettist Emma Johnson and friends including Martin Roscoe and horn player Ben Goldscheider will be performing RVW, Beethoven and Brahms.Isfar Sarabski is an Azeri composer and pianist, currently studying at Berklee College of Music, will be exploring the relationship between jazz and mugham, Azerbaijan’s traditional music. Sarabski is the great-grandson of Huseyngulu Sarabski, the celebrated Azerbaijani opera singer, actor and one of the founders of Eastern opera. […]
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