Favourite Encores

“the Brodsky Quartet blow the musical cobwebs off some of the most cherishable miniatures in the repertoire...so swaggeringly sensual is the Brodsky's Playera (Sarasate), so alluringly suave their Caprice viennois (Elgar), in which they are joined by gifted viola player Robert Smissen, that it becomes hard to imagine these pieces played any other way - or any better.” --BBC Music Magazine, April 2012 *****

“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.” --Gramophone Magazine, June 2012

"...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