{"id":8257,"date":"2013-01-31T23:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T07:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=8257"},"modified":"2013-02-07T21:17:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:17:49","slug":"boston-cello-quartet-debut-album-a-must-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/31\/boston-cello-quartet-debut-album-a-must-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"boston cello quartet debut album a must buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8258\" alt=\"bsq-pictures-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1400-X1400-CD-Art-1-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/www.bostoncelloquartet.com\">Boston Cello Quartet<\/a>, comprised of four young cellists from the Boston Symphony, will release its debut disc on February 5th. The BSQ was founded in 2010 by Blaise\u00a0D\u00e9jardin, Adam Esbensen (formerly of the Oregon Symphony, and a Corvallis native), Mihail Jojatu and Alexandre Lecarme. They rotate lead players for each piece they perform, and each player is brilliantly suited to the task at hand, showing the virtuosity and flexibility of the quartet, both collectively and individually.<\/p>\n\n<p>The album&#8217;s title is &#8216;Pictures&#8217;, and this is undoubtedly due to the fact that the centerpiece of the disc is a virtuoso arrangement of selected movements from Mussorgsky&#8217;s <em>Pictures at an Exhibition. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The arrangement, by Blaise D\u00e9jardin, is quite breathtaking in its simplicity and ingenuity. Listening to each of the movements, I found myself quite forgetting Ravel&#8217;s virtuoso orchestration, and simply enjoying the tonal possibilities of the four cellos, and the beautiful playing throughout.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8obDo-xCmLk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a wide selection of material for just about any mood on this disc &#8211; from the Overture to <em>The Marriage of Figaro<\/em>, to Debussy&#8217;s <em>Clair de Lune<\/em>, to Piazzolla&#8217;s <em>La Muerte del Angel<\/em>. And the piece de resistance may be the final encore selection by D\u00e9jardin, his <em>Mozart Variations<\/em>, which has the temerity to combine Mahler, Mozart, John Williams, Rossini, McCartney, and Haydn into a delightful bon bon.<\/p>\n<p>The sonics of the disc are as superb as the playing. I recommend this disc most highly!<\/p>\n<p>It drops February 5, 2013 and is available through iTunes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/www.cdbaby.com\">CDBaby<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/www.amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/www.bostoncelloquartet.com\">www.bostoncelloquartet.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Cello Quartet, comprised of four young cellists from the Boston Symphony, will release its debut disc on February 5th. The BSQ was founded in 2010 by Blaise\u00a0D\u00e9jardin, Adam Esbensen (formerly of the Oregon Symphony, and a Corvallis native), Mihail Jojatu and Alexandre Lecarme. They rotate lead players for each piece they perform, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148,153,136,2],"tags":[3256,3259,3257,3253,461,3254,3258,3255,2968,160],"class_list":["post-8257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-cello","category-chamber-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-adam-esbensen","tag-alexandre-lecarme","tag-blaise-dejardin","tag-boston-cello-quartet","tag-boston-symphony","tag-debut-album","tag-mihail-jojatu","tag-pictures","tag-preview","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-29b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":737,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/06\/chamber-concert-noon-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":8257,"position":0},"title":"chamber concert noon today","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If you've got time in your lunch hour for a quick concert of chamber music masterpieces, come on over to the Old Church (1422 SW 11th Ave) at Noon today to hear (mostly) members of the Oregon Symphony play music by Beethoven and Brahms.\u00c2\u00a0 Here's the line-up: Beethoven - Quartet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chamber music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"mol_brownbaglunch_big.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/mol_brownbaglunch_big.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8149,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/17\/blog-speed-bumps\/","url_meta":{"origin":8257,"position":1},"title":"blog speed bumps","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi all - please pardon the lack of posts and also the very slow loading of the blog lately. My hosting provider (dreamhost) has been less than dreamy of late, after moving the server on which my (and many other web sites) blog is located to a new data center\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;miscellaneous&quot;","block_context":{"text":"miscellaneous","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/miscellaneous\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"noble_sig.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/noble_sig.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":724,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/31\/oso-cellist-wins-big-gig\/","url_meta":{"origin":8257,"position":2},"title":"oso cellist wins big gig","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo credit: Charles Noble Oregon Symphony cellist Adam Esbensen, a native of Corvallis, and a member of the Oregon Symphony since 2004 (he's also the cellist with local new music ensemble fEARnoMUSIC), has won what is considered the Holy Grail of orchestral jobs, a position in a Big Five orchestra,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;cello&quot;","block_context":{"text":"cello","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/instruments\/cello\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"fnm08_CRW_9776","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/2191092936_face7c2344_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4255,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/23\/this-weeks-ipod-mix\/","url_meta":{"origin":8257,"position":3},"title":"this week&#8217;s ipod mix","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a the recordings that I'm planning on listening to this week (finally - time to do some listening!): Ian Bostridge - Songs of Faure, Debussy & Poulenc with Belcea Quartet, Julius Drake and Leon Bosch Richard Danielpour: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 4 American String Quartet Bartok:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;recordings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"recordings","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/recordings-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ir?t=dailyobservat-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0002XDOFI","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":913,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/05\/mendelssohn\/","url_meta":{"origin":8257,"position":4},"title":"mendelssohn","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night was the benefit concert at the Community Music Center for the Naomi Blumberg Fund for Chamber Music Education at the Community Music Center. \u00c2\u00a0 The first half was a wonderful performance of the Mendelssohn Trio for violin, cello and piano in c minor, Op. 66. \u00c2\u00a0It was given\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chamber music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7233,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/13\/another-oso-musician-goes-to-boston-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":8257,"position":5},"title":"another oso musician goes to boston symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Matthew McKay, who just joined the Oregon Symphony percussion section this season, has won a position in the venerable Boston Symphony. 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