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The Yale Quartet was a string quartet based at Yale University composed of musicians in the Yale School of Music and formed and led by violinist Broadus Erle (formerly of the New Music Quartet) [1] from the time he arrived at Yale in 1960. [2] The Yale Quartet is especially acclaimed for their classic recordings of the Beethoven late string quartets, made for the Vanguard label during the late 1960s and early 1970s. [3] . [4] Violist David Schwartz, who began with the quartet, was later replaced by renowned violist Walter Trampler. Original 2nd Violinist Yoko Matsuda was succeeded by Syoko Aki in 1967; Aki still teaches at Yale, having joined the faculty in 1968 and violoncellist Aldo Parisot retired from Yale in 2018 at the age of 99, following a 60-year tenure there; he died in December 2018, shortly after his 100th birthday. After Broadus Erle's premature death in 1977, the Yale Quartet disbanded. The Tokyo Quartet was the quartet-in-residence at Yale for most of the period since the late 1970s, until the Brentano String Quartet was appointed to the position in 2013. [5] The Yale's celebrated recordings of the last five Beethoven quartets for Vanguard have been reissued on compact disc, as have their only other recordings, of two Mozart quartets, K.421 and K.575, and the Brahms piano quintet with André Previn.

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Cello:

Recordings

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References

  1. Broadus Erle biography
  2. B.H. Haggin, 'Music Chronicle' in The Hudson Review Vol 22 no 4 (Winter 1969-70) pp 687-697.
  3. Classics Today Review
  4. Classics Today Review
  5. "Brentano String Quartet appointed new faculty quartet-in-residence at Yale School of Music".