​50th Anniversary

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The Brodsky Quartet are currently celebrating their 50th Anniversary with concerts planned across the globe in recognition of this magnificent milestone! Current and future projects include:

• An expanded concert idea, based around Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence and the septet version of Strauss’s Metamorphosen

• A new clarinet quintet by Joseph Phibbs, programme to also include the Mozart Clarinet Quintet and Philip Venables ‘K’ (to be ready by spring 2024)

• A Schubert, Bach, Britten cycle: three concerts to include the three new Bach solo violin sonatas which Paul Cassidy has arranged for quartet, the three Britten quartets and Schubert quartets in G major, D minor and A minor: listen HERE

• A late Beethoven cycle

• Their 50th anniversary programme of unknown masterpieces which includes new arrangements for SQ of works including: Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, Debussy Prelude IX, Debussy 2nd Arabesque, Faure Apres un Reve, and Khachaturian Sabre Dance

• A programme for voice and quartet with the sensational Virpi Räisänen, to include repertoire by Schubert: Du bist die Ruh, D776; Golijov: Una Madre Comió Asado; Mathilde Wantenaar: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis and  Respighi: Il Tramonto

• A new collaboration with didgeridoo player, William Barton, exploring works including Purcell: Fantasia No.5; Robert Davidson: Stradbroke; and Peter Sculthorpe: String Quartet No.8.