{"id":3650,"date":"2012-02-21T12:11:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T11:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2012-02-21T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:24:14","slug":"still-young-at-forty-the-brodsky-quartet-celebrates-at-the-wigmore-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/02\/21\/still-young-at-forty-the-brodsky-quartet-celebrates-at-the-wigmore-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Still young at forty: the Brodsky Quartet celebrates at the Wigmore Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

For anyone who can’t wait until March 23 to hear the Brodsky Quartet when it comes to the Gulbenkian Theatre<\/a>, news just lands on my desk of their fortieth anniversary concert at the Wigmore Hall in a few weeks’ time, on Sunday 11 March<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In an intriguing programme, the Quartet will present their own arrangement of Ravel’s Blues<\/em><\/a>, the third movement of a work originally falling as part of Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Piano<\/em>. Post-war American jazz was rife in Paris in the ‘twenties, and the second movement of Ravel’s chamber sonata revels in added-notes, ‘blue’ notes and jazz-inflected rhythms.<\/p>\n