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CHAN 10708

Petits-Fours: Favourite Encores

Released Date:
01 Feb 2012

Recorded in 24 Bit / 96Khz

 Originally recorded in 2011
Artists:

Philip Edward Fisher

piano ‡

Robert Smissen

viola †

Brodsky Quartet



Venue:

Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

7/8 Sept 2011

Producer:

Jeremy Hayes



Engineer:

Jonathan Cooper



Record Label
Chandos

Genre:

Chamber




Total Time - 64:24
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PABLO DE SARASATE

1 

Playera

 4:42
  No.1 from Spanische Tänze, Op.23  
 

MANUEL DE FALLA

2 

Polo

 1:13
  No.7 from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas  
3 

Nana

 3:14
  No.5 from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas  
 

PABLO DE SARASATE

4 

Zapateado

 3:35
  No.2 from Spanische Tänze, Op.23  
 

EDWARD ELGAR

5 

Chanson de matin, Op.15 No.2 *

 3:12
6 

La Capricieuse, Op.17

 4:06
7 

Chanson de nuit, Op.15 No.1

 4:11
   
 

ANTONIN DVORÁK

8 

Humoresque

 3:20
  No.7 from Humoresques, Op.101, B 187  
 

ROBERT SCHUMANN

9 

Sehr langsam

 3:13
  No.30 from Album für die Jugend, Op.68  
 

FRITZ KREISLER

10 

Caprice viennois, Op.2 †

 4:15
   
 

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

11 

On Wings of Song

 3:36
  No.2 from Sechs Gesänge, Op.34  
 

LEOPOLD GODOWSKY

12 

Alt-Wien

 2:41
  No.11 from Triakontameron  
 

ROBERT SCHUMANN

13 

Von fremden Ländern und Menschen ‡

 1:56
  No.1 from Kinderszenen, Op.15  
14 

Curiose Geschichte ‡

 1:12
  No.2 from Kinderszenen, Op.15  
15 

Träumerei ‡

 2:58
  No.7 from Kinderszenen, Op.15  
 

MAURICE RAVEL

16 

Waltz No.6

 0:44
  from Valses nobles et sentimentales  
17 

Blues

 5:25
  Second movement from Sonata in G major for Violin and Piano  
 

SERGEY PROKOFIEV

18 

March

 1:39
  from The Love for Three Oranges, Op.33  
 

DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

19 

Prelude

 2:44
  from Five Duets for Two Violins and Piano  
20 

Waltz No.2 ‡

 3:32
  No.7 from Suite for Variety Orchestra  
 

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

21 

Beau soir

 2:56

Petits-fours – Brodsky Quartet

Chandos Records signed an exclusive contract with the Brodsky Quartet in time for the celebrations of its fortieth anniversary in 2012.

Formed in 1972, the Brodsky Quartet quickly emerged at the forefront of the international chamber music scene. It has performed more than 2000 concerts and made more than fifty highly acclaimed recordings. This is the Quartet’s first release on Chandos, and includes many of the encores it has performed over the years, notable for their novelty and diverse range of styles and emotions. All the pieces have been arranged by past or current members of the Quartet, and together they form an entertaining and original collection.

"...what fabulous arrangements these are! All four players share the limelight- melodies and virtuosic turns are equally parceled out. And they’re also audible, that to the warm, resonant, clear and (above all) balanced engineering. What a tribute this album serves to this group, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year... The Brodsky’s timbre on this album is superbly polished... what is especially remarkable here is their breadth of styles... This is the perfect album for background music to brighten your day or dinner party."

Gil French - American Record Guide - July/August 2012


"...This celebratory disc presents a series of their favourite encores, the overwhelming majority of which are heard in premiere recordings ...The recording, undertaken at Potton Hall, is warm and sympathetic, and admirers of the group can enjoy the finely played..."

Jonathan Woolf - musicweb-international - 5 May 2012


“...where most such collections offer a mixed bag for you to select at will, this one offers a satisfying sequence when played end to end... Cunningly, the sequence ends with one of the gentlest numbers, Debussy’s song ‘Beau soir’. Cassidy is again responsible for most of the arrangements in the sequence. What is so striking about the playing of the Brodsky Quartet throughout is their brimming love for the music, with some ravishing shading down to the most hushed pianissimos. All this is caught in wonderfully rich and transparent sound, a credit to the Chandos engineers.”

Edward Greenfield – Gramophone magazine – June 2012


                    *****    - Very Good

Guy Wagner – Pizzicato magazine – May 2012


             IRR Outstanding
“...In keeping with the enjoyably sugary repertoire,  Chandos’s sound is sweet, intimate and always very clear.”

Raymond S Tuttle – International Record Review – April 2012


                           Performance *****      Recording *****
“What better way for the Brodsky Quartet to celebrate its 40th birthday than with a sumptuously engineered recital of champagne encores skilfully arranged by the quartet’s viola player, Paul Cassidy and former leader Andrew Haveron? Acclaimed for their probing musicianship, the Brodsky Quartet blow the musical cobwebs off some of the most cherishable miniatures in the repertoire ... Here’s to the next 40 years.”

Julian Haylock – BBC Music magazine – April 2012
 




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