Brodsky Quartet

The Brodsky Quartet is a British string quartet, in existence since 1972, though only Ian Belton and Jacqueline Thomas are original members. In addition to performing classical music , and in particular the classic string quartet repertoire...

In this article: Bjork, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Franz Schubert, Bela Bartok, Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, and Family Tree

...their talents to a remix of the song, which first appeared on Bjork's Post album, and later on Telegram ''. The song is mistitled Hyperballad (Brodski Quartet Version) on all pressings of the limited 2xCD edition Australian of ''Post. In the...

In this article: Hyperballad, Bjork, Post, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Michel Gondry, Tibetan Freedom Concert, Tibetan Freedom Concert, Big Heavy Stuff, and Mocca

...at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he won the Mendelssohn Prize in 1885. He played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and in the Brodsky Quartet, originally as second violin and later as viola. He subsequently emigrated to the USA,...

In this article: Ottokar Novacek, New York City, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Henry Schradieck, Arthur Nikisch, and Ferruccio Busoni

...Wines and Spirits" and "Red Cotton." The singer - who in the past few years has played with everyone from Burt Bacharach to the Brodsky Quartet - even unveiled something tentatively called "Condemned Man," a sinister jailhouse ballad he...

In this article: Elvis Costello, Jim Lauderdale, San Francisco Chronicle, Wente Vineyards, Mountain Winery, Live Aid, Burt Bacharach, and Phil Collins

Last year Costello brought his orchestral and big band book to play with the RSNO in what proved a stunning concert. As part of the Brodsky Quartet's series of appearances in the city, he returned with a new book of arrangements of material...

In this article: Elvis Costello, All rights reserved, Champagne, Accidents Will Happen, Shipbuilding, Taittinger, The Juliet Letters, and Brutal Youth

...with "Accidents Will Happen", sung as he sang it in 1979 when he was a New Wave pop star, but played by the classical strings of the Brodsky Quartet. Cheers for this old favourite are checked in the hush of a classical space. Such confusion...

In this article: Elvis Costello, New Wave, Barbican, London, Accidents Will Happen, P.S. I Love You, Watching the Detectives, and Shipbuilding

...he's amazing when he's playing loud guitar music, his notion that he's a ballad singer is at best misguided - and don't get us started on the Brodsky Quartet. Artists have a confused attitude to change as well. Sometimes, they don't know...

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Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet at the Barbican, review Elvis Costello's greatest hits take on a new life in a bold and brilliant collaboration with the Brodsky Quartet. Rating: * * * * Last Updated: 4:30PM BST 24 Apr 2009 There...

In this article: Elvis Costello, The Juliet Letters, Falklands War, Alison, Accidents Will Happen, Oliver's Army, Shipbuilding, and The Big Lebowski

...scale next April and within the same venue, in what promises to one of the major highlights of the Scottish musical calendar, the Brodsky Quartet take us on a mammoth tour of all of Shostakovicha s 15 string quartets over the course of a...

In this article: Glasgow, Dawn Upshaw, Royal Concert Hall, Champagne, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and London Symphony Orchestra

...-- from rock and R&B to country and jazz -- and in his choice of collaborators on album-length projects, including the classical Brodsky Quartet, soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, the Mingus Big Band, pop legend Burt Bacharach and, next...

In this article: Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Steve Nieve, Il Sogno, Hurricane Katrina, Watching the Detectives, Michael McGlynn, Hans Christian Andersen, and Burt Bacharach