Newscutting of a review of a concert given by the Brodsky Quartet in the Frankfurt Museum

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To this concert, the seventh chamber music evening of the Frankfurt Museum Society was invited the Brodsky Quartet from Manchester. The nationality and a brief biographical outline is given of each member. The Quartet played the Quartet in D major op.11 by Tchaikovsky, the second Quartet in F major op.41 by Robert Schumann and Beethoven's B major Quartet op.135. The performance is reviewed at length and special mention is made of Brodsky's playing in the Andante Cantabile in the Tchaikovsky. The Brodsky Quartet is compared favourably with quartets of the past, eg the Joachim and of the present, eg the Bohemian and the St. Petersburg. Dated 22 Dec 1906.