This album was recorded using 24-bit / 192 kHz technology, which offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.
Album & Artwork
This album, titled 'Golden Oldies: A 50th Birthday Celebration', marks the Brodsky Quartet's fiftieth anniversary and features a collection of past and new arrangements.
Performer Biography
The Brodsky Quartet, formed in 1972, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2022, having performed over 3000 concerts and released more than seventy recordings.
Performer Biography
Laura van der Heijden, a leading cellist of her generation, won the BBC Young Musician competition at age fifteen and has released acclaimed albums.
Performer Biography
The Brodsky Quartet members, as children in the 1970s, would transcribe works by composers like Shostakovich from radio broadcasts to play them.
Performer Biography
Julian Jacobson, a pianist with a career spanning five decades, is known for his Beethoven interpretations and has performed eleven complete cycles of the piano sonatas, five from memory in a single day.
Compositional Technique
Many pieces on this album are arrangements of popular classical works, created by members of the Brodsky Quartet, such as Paul Cassidy and Jacqueline Thomas, to be played as encores.
