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Discussion: Brahms: Clarinet Quintet - Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Posts: 9

Post by terence April 27, 2007 (1 of 9)
i assume this is (nominally at least) the same fitzwilliam quartet which recorded the complete shostakovich quartets for decca on RBCD?

has anyone heard this performance?

Post by Collectus April 27, 2007 (2 of 9)
terence said:

i assume this is (nominally at least) the same fitzwilliam quartet which recorded the complete shostakovich quartets for decca on RBCD?

has anyone heard this performance?

Yes, it is

Post by Beagle April 27, 2007 (3 of 9)
Collectus said: Yes, it is
But with a new cellist (their third that I know of), Andrew Skidmore. Usually it's the violist who gets replaced.

http://www.fitzwilliamquartet.org/biography.asp

Post by brenda April 27, 2007 (4 of 9)
terence said:

i assume this is (nominally at least) the same fitzwilliam quartet which recorded the complete shostakovich quartets for decca on RBCD?

has anyone heard this performance?

most of the personnel have now been replaced, just the one left, I think, - two at most. B

Post by Beagle April 27, 2007 (5 of 9)
Hi Brenda, good to see you here again -- I know, you've been 'lurking'.... According to my (incomplete) records:

FWQ I (1968)
undergrad 1: violin1
undergrad 2: violin2
undergrad 3: viola
undergrad 4: cello

FWQ II (ca 1975-77)
Rowland, Christopher: violin1
Sparey, Jonathan: violin2
George, Alan: viola
Yeadon, Daniel: cello

FWQ III (ca 1978)
Russell, Lucy: violin1
Sparey, Jonathan: violin2
George, Alan: viola
Davies, Ioan: cello

FWQ IV (ca 2006)
Russell, Lucy: violin1
Sparey, Jonathan: violin2
George, Alan: viola
Skidmore, Andrew: cello

-- but that's based only on the recordings: Shostakovich 1975-77, Franck/Ravel 1978. It use to be, before heavy PR-types took over, that Quartet webpages had historic personnel -- no longer. Do YOU know who the "four undergraduates" were?

Post by brenda April 28, 2007 (6 of 9)
Beagle said:

Hi Brenda, good to see you here again -- I know, you've been 'lurking'.... According to my (incomplete) records:

FWQ I (1968)
undergrad 1: violin1
undergrad 2: violin2
undergrad 3: viola
undergrad 4: cello

Do YOU know who the "four undergraduates" were?

Dear beagle, no, sorry, don't know who the original 4 student members were. Have heard the last two configurations live in recent years, and so far they haven't (IMHO) come close to recapturing the discipline and power of their 70's Shostakovich line-up. Best wishes, B

Post by Beagle April 29, 2007 (7 of 9)
brenda said: they haven't (IMHO) come close to recapturing the discipline and power of their 70's Shostakovich line-up.
Do you have an opinion of the Brodsky's cycle?

Post by brenda April 29, 2007 (8 of 9)
Beagle said:

Do you have an opinion of the Brodsky's cycle?

love the Brodsky recorded cycle, and was privileged to hear them play Shostie live recently (along with Britten), - absolutely electrifying, truly memorable.B

Post by Beagle April 29, 2007 (9 of 9)
brenda said: love the Brodsky
Oh good! We agree on Brodsky. So I won't mention the Lindsays -- except to say that I recently got their Smetana;Dvorák CD, and yes, in the opening of the 2nd mvt of Quartet no. 1 there is indeed something which strikes the ears (even my sorry pair) as off-pitch. Ah-ha, says me, THAT is what Brenda is on about. However, and here's the kicker, on my next listen I couldn't hear it. Adaptive hearing, I guess. They certainly make a better play of it than the Smetana Quartet; I have the Talich version on order, or rather lost in the mails.

My own personal favourite Shostakovich was live by the eponymous Shostakovich Quartet themselves a few years back. But live always trumps pressed flowers (recordings).

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