- Salomon Quartet
The Salomon Quartet was formed in
1982 as one of the firststring quartet s playing music of the classical period onauthentic instruments and informed by historical scholarship. The quartet originally comprisedSimon Standage , (violin ),Micaela Comberti †, (violin), Trevor Jones, (viola ), andJennifer 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.
Recordings
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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 quintet s K.515, 593, 516, 614 with Simon Whistler, viola
*Mozart:Piano quartet s K.478, 493 withRichard Burnett ,fortepiano
*Mozart:Clarinet quintets K.581, 516c, 580b (completed by Duncan Druce) with Alan Hacker,basset horn and Lesley Schatzberger,clarinet
*Mozart:Eine Kleine Nachtmusik withThe Academy of Ancient Music andChristopher Hogwood
*Gyrowetz: 3 string quartets op.44
*The String Quartet in 18th-century England: string quartets by Abel, Shield, Marsh, Webbe and Wesley.
*Haydn: 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 Salomon) withLisa Beznosiuk ,flute , andChristopher Hogwood ,fortepiano External links
* [http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?name=salomon Hyperion Records: The Salomon Quartet]
* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,914008,00.html Obituary of Micaela Comberti] by Simon Standage; inThe Guardian
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