The Yale Quartet is a string quartet

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...

 based at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 composed of musicians in the Yale School of Music and originally led by Broadus Erle

Broadus Erle

Broadus Erle was an American violinist.Born in Chicago and reared in Toronto, Erle began his violin studies at age 3, taught by his mother, Brownie Earl. At age 5, he started taking lessons from Pasquale Briglia, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...

 (formerly of the New Music Quartet) from the time he arrived in Yale in 1960. It is especially noted for a set of recordings of the late Beethoven quartets, made during the 1960s and 1970s.

Personnel

1st violin:

• Broadus Erle
  Broadus Erle
  Broadus Erle was an American violinist.Born in Chicago and reared in Toronto, Erle began his violin studies at age 3, taught by his mother, Brownie Earl. At age 5, he started taking lessons from Pasquale Briglia, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...
  
  

2nd violin:

• Yoko Matsuda (1964-1967)
• Syoko Aki

Viola:

• David Schwartz
  David Schwartz (violist)
  David Schwartz is an American violist and music instructor. Schwartz's career spanned orchestral music, chamber music, and studio recording, but he is most recognized for his chamber music performances and recordings with the Yale and Paganini Quartets.- Musical education :Schwartz studied viola...
  
  
• Walter Trampler
  Walter Trampler
  Walter Trampler was a German musician and teacher of the viola and viola d'amore.Born at Munich, he began to study music at the age of 6, learning from his father, a violinist. In his youth, he toured Europe performing as the violist of the Strub String Quartet...
  
  

Cello:

• Aldo Parisot
  Aldo Parisot
  Aldo Simoes Parisot is a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher, was formerly a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and currently is serving as a professor of music at the Yale School of Music....
  
  

Recordings

• Op 127 & 131: Erle-Aki-Schwartz-Parisot; Op 132: Erle-Matsuda-Schwartz-Parisot; Op 130, 133, 135: Erle-Aki-Trampler-Parisot).Originally issued on LP: Vanguard Cardinal Series Set VCS-10101.
• Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor op 34 (issued 1973), HMV LP ASD 2873 (Erle-Aki-Trampler-Parisot).
• Mozart Quartets in D minor K 421 and D major K 575, Cardinal LP VCS 10019 (Erle-Matsuda-Schwartz-Parisot).