NI 5762

Shostakovich String Quartets Nos. 3 and 7
Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2

Founded by experienced chamber musicians steeped in the standards and style of the classic Russian school, the Kopelman Quartet carries forward a rich inheritance of technical excellence, lyricism, grace and musical integrity. Mikhail Kopelman, Boris Kuschnir, Igor Sulyga and Mikhail Milman all graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in the 1970's. Even though they pursued individual careers for 25 years, the common roots and background of the musicians enabled the Kopelman Quartet quickly to grow to maturity when they founded the quartet in 2002.

NI 7929/30

Prima Voce - Alessandro Bonci (1870 - 1940)

Alessandro Bonci was active at the end of the 19th century, a period euphemistically referred to as the ‘Golden Age’. He belonged to a distinguished group of tenori di grazia, held to be the epitome of the ‘Bel Canto’ style of singing, which included Fernando De Lucia, Giuseppe Anselmi, Fernando Carpi, Giuseppe Krismer, Carlo Dani, Manfredi Polverosi and Elvino Ventura. For both audiences and singers of this generation priority was given to elegance of declamation combined with an ease of vocal emission and fine control of dynamics.