Salomon Quartet
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The Salomon Quartet was formed in 1982 as one of the first string quartet
s playing music of the classical period on authentic instruments and informed by historical scholarship. The quartet originally comprised Simon Standage
, (violin
), Micaela Comberti †, (violin), Trevor Jones, (viola
), and Jennifer Ward Clarke, (cello
). Violin II is now taken by Catherine Martin.
The violins and viola are modern reproductions of models set up as they would have been at the end of the 18th century. The cello is English and dates from 1791.
String quartet
A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
s playing music of the classical period on authentic instruments and informed by historical scholarship. The quartet originally comprised Simon Standage
Simon Standage
Simon Andrew Thomas Standage is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.- Biography and career :...
, (violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
), Micaela Comberti †, (violin), Trevor Jones, (viola
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
), and Jennifer Ward Clarke, (cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
). Violin II is now taken by Catherine Martin.
The violins and viola are modern reproductions of models set up as they would have been at the end of the 18th century. The cello is English and dates from 1791.
Recordings
- Mozart: The 6 'Haydn' String Quartets, K.387, 421, 428, 458, 464, 465 (including 'Dissonance', 'Hunt' and 'Drum')
- Mozart: String quartets K.565 and K.590
- Mozart: String quartets K.499 'Hoffmeister' and K.589
- Mozart: String quintetString quintetA string quintet is a musical composition for a standard string quartet supplemented by a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola or a second cello , but occasionally a double bass. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who favoured addition of a viola, is considered a pioneer of the form...
s K.515, 593, 516, 614 with Simon Whistler, viola - Mozart: Piano quartetPiano quartetIn European classical music, piano quartet denotes a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments...
s K.478, 493 with Richard BurnettRichard BurnettRichard Burnett is a writer, editor, journalist and columnist. His column and blog, "Three Dollar Bill", deals with gay life and culture across Canada and around the world....
, fortepianoFortepianoFortepiano designates the early version of the piano, from its invention by the Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori around 1700 up to the early 19th century. It was the instrument for which Haydn, Mozart, and the early Beethoven wrote their piano music... - Mozart: Clarinet quintets K.581, 516c, 580b (completed by Duncan Druce) with Alan Hacker, basset horn and Lesley Schatzberger, clarinetClarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
- Mozart: Eine Kleine NachtmusikEine kleine NachtmusikThe Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787. The work is more commonly known by the title Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The German title means "a little serenade", though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as "a little night music"...
with The Academy of Ancient Music and Christopher HogwoodChristopher HogwoodChristopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA , HonMusD , born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.-Biography:... - GyrowetzAdalbert GyrowetzVojtěch Matyáš Jírovec was a Bohemian composer.- Biography :...
: 3 string quartets op.44 - The String Quartet in 18th-century England: string quartets by Abel, ShieldWilliam ShieldWilliam Shield was an English composer, violinist and violist who was born in Swalwell near Gateshead, the son of William Shield and his wife, Mary, née Cash.-Life and musical career:...
, MarshJohn MarshJohn Marsh may refer to:*John Marsh , governor of the Hudson's Bay Company*John Marsh , English composer*John Marsh , American pioneer and physician...
, WebbeSamuel WebbeSamuel Webbe was an English composer.Born in Minorca in 1740, Webbe was brought up in London. His father died when he was still a baby and his mother returned to London where she raised Webbe in difficult circumstances. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker, and during the...
and WesleySamuel WesleySamuel Wesley was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart and was called by some "the English Mozart."-Personal life:...
. - HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
: the 'Sun' quartets op.20 nos.1-6 - Haydn: the 'Russian' quartets op.33 nos.1-6, op.42 (including 'The Joke', 'The Bird' and 'How do you do?')
- Haydn: 'Prussian' quartets op.50 nos.1-6
- Haydn: 'Tost I' quartets op.54
- Haydn: 'Tost II' quartets op.55
- Haydn: 'Tost' quartets op.64 nos.1-6 (including 'The Lark')
- Haydn: String quartets op.71 nos.1-3
- Haydn: String quartets op.74 nos.1-3 (including 'The Rider')
- Haydn: String quartets op.77 nos.1-2, op.103
- Haydn: Symphonies no.100 and 104 (in the transcriptions of SalomonJohann Peter SalomonJohann Peter Salomon was a German violinist, composer, conductor and musical impresario.-Life:...
) with Lisa BeznosiukLisa BeznosiukLisa Beznosiuk is an English flautist of Ukrainian and Irish descent, specialising in period performance of baroque and classical music on historical flutes.-Biography and career:...
, fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, and Christopher HogwoodChristopher HogwoodChristopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA , HonMusD , born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.-Biography:...
, fortepianoFortepianoFortepiano designates the early version of the piano, from its invention by the Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori around 1700 up to the early 19th century. It was the instrument for which Haydn, Mozart, and the early Beethoven wrote their piano music...
External links
- Hyperion Records: The Salomon Quartet
- Obituary of Micaela Comberti by Simon Standage; in The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...