Artist: Brodsky Quartet, Laura van der Heijden, Julian Jacobsen
Title: Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24bit-192kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:10:57
Total Size: 2.39 GB

Tracklist:

1. Debussy: Deuxième Arabesque from Deux Arabesques (4:01)
2. Bach: Prelude X, BWV 855 (2:52)
3. Fauré: Trois mélodies, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve, Op.7 No. 1 (Arr. for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy) (3:26)
4. Shostakovich: Elegy (2:32)
5. Shostakovich: Polka (1:35)
6. Debussy: Prélude VI (4:06)
7. Saint-Saëns: Les Cygnes (2:53)
8. Khachaturian: Sabre Dance (Arr. for String Quartet by Andrew Haveron) (2:39)
9. Elgar: Adieu (2:40)
10. Debussy: Première Arabesque from Deux Arabesques (5:16)
11. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto (Arr. for String Quartet by Paul Cassidy) (6:44)
12. Satie: Gnossiennes, IES 24: I. Lent (Arr. for String Quartet by Krysia Osostowicz) (3:29)
13. Satie: Gnossienne No. 2 (1:52)
14. Satie: Gnossienne No. 6 (1:34)
15. Joplin: Solace "A Mesican Serenade" (7:05)
16. Poulenc: Prélude (2:16)
17. Debussy: Prélude IX (2:49)
18. Casals: El cant dels ocells (4:50)
19. Bazzini: La Ronde des lutins, Op. 25: La ronde des lutins, Op. 25 (5:27)
20. Žebeljan: An Intimate Letter from the Judean Desert (3:02)

Since its formation in 1972 the Brodsky Quartet has performed more than 3000 concerts on the major concert stages of the world and has released more than seventy recordings. A natural curiosity and insatiable desire to explore have propelled the group in many artistic directions and continue to ensure it not only a place at the very forefront of the international chamber music scene but also a rich and varied musical existence.

The cellist, Jacqueline Thomas, writes: ‘The Brodsky Quartet celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2022. Looking back, I find it wonderful that ten- and twelve-year-olds were already infused with passion and with a belief in the longevity that is now playing out. Two of us remain from the beginning; one joined as we turned professional, forty years ago, and our new fourth member has trodden her own similar path in the endlessly fulfilling life that is the string quartet. It has become something of a tradition that we release a compilation disc once every ten years, and so now, in our Golden Anniversary year, we have assembled a playlist from past and new arrangements, taking inspiration from the old days and even revamping some of our childhood efforts.’