Yale Quartet

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 Broadus Erle (formerly of the New Music Quartet)^[1] from the time he arrived in Yale in 1960.^[2] The Yale Quartet is especially noted for the complete recordings of the late Beethoven string quartets, made for the Vanguard label during the late 1960s and early 1970s.^[3] .^[4] When Erle died prematurely in Spring 1977, the quartet disbanded, although the violinist Syoko Aki & violoncellist Aldo Parisot still teach at Yale (as of 2012). The Tokyo Quartet was the quartet-in-residence at Yale for most of the period since Erle's death, until the Brentano String Quartet was appointed to the position in 2013.^[5] The Yale Quartet's recordings of the late Beethoven works have been reissued on compact disc (twice), as has their recording with André Previn of the Brahms Piano quintet, but their only other recording, of two Mozart quartets, has been out of print for many years.

Personnel

1st violin:

• Broadus Erle

2nd violin:

• Yoko Matsuda (1964-1967)
• Syoko Aki

Viola:

• David Schwartz
• Walter Trampler

Cello:

• Aldo Parisot

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).

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