Norbert Brainin
Violinist Norbert Brainin was the founder and leader of the Amadeus String Quartet, one of the premier string quartets in the twentieth century. A native of Vienna, Brainin was inspired at age 6 to pick up the violin after seeing a concert featuring the young Yehudi Menuhin, and he studied at the Vienna Konservatorium with Carl Flesch and Ricardo Odnoposoff. Brainin's course of study was interrupted by the Anschluss, and he and his Jewish family were forced to flee to England. At war's end, Brainin was awarded the Carl Flesch Prize by London's Guildhall School of Music. In forming the Amadeus Quartet, Brainin drew upon fellow students with whom he had played at Guildhall -- violinist Siegmund Nissel, Peter Schidlof, who agreed to switch from violin to viola, and cellist Martin Lovett.
The Amadeus Quartet debuted in January 1948 to immediate acclaim, and this provided the touchstone for a 40-year career as one of the world's most popular string quartets in travels spanning the globe and multitudes of recordings and concert appearances. When Peter Schidlof died suddenly in 1987, the quartet agreed to disband, but Brainin continued to perform as a solo artist, and did a small amount of recording late in life. He also appeared in concerts supporting controversial American presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, whose initiative to lower the nationally prescribed pitch of middle C to the 256 Hz of Bach's time Brainin supported.
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Discographie
7 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Mozart: Quintettes à cordes, K. 593 & K. 614 (Mono Version)
Cecil Aronowitz, Amadeus-Quartett, Norbert Brainin, Siegmund Nissel, Peter Schidlof, Martin Lovett
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1958
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ludwig van Beethoven - Complete Violin Sonatas
Classique - Paru chez Preiser Records le 6 oct. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sinfonia Concertante - Concertone
Norbert Brainin, Peter Schidlof, English Chamber Orchestra, Neil Black, Alexander Gibson, Olga Hegedus
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: String Quartets
Amadeus Quartett, Norbert Brainin, Siegmund Nissel, Peter Schidlof, Martin Lovett
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Jube Classic le 7 févr. 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, vol. 20
Norbert Brainin, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO)
Classique - Paru chez ArnebAudio le 21 mars 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major & Concertone in C Major
Alexander Gibson, English Chamber Orchestra, Norbert Brainin, Peter Schidlof
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 avr. 1984
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Milestones of a Piano Legend: Sir Clifford Curzon, Vol. 7
Clifford Curzon, Norbert Brainin, New Symphony Orchestra, Peter Schidlof, Enrique Jorda, Martin Lovett
Classique - Paru chez Intense Media GmbH le 18 mars 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo