About

Whether it’s collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma and opening for Train at Tanglewood; playing the National Anthem and Metallica’s Enter Sandman at Boston’s Fenway Park; appearing with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops in the James Bond Concertino, a work commissioned especially for the BCQ itself, or recording the soundtrack for the videogame Of Orcs and Men, this versatile ensemble continuously looks for ways to insert the “traditional” ensemble approach into a variety of non-traditional settings, all the while bringing in a legion of new fans.
The quartet’s first album, Pictures, was released in 2013 and quickly rose to the Top 50 Classical Music Albums on iTunes. The group’s eagerly-awaited follow-up album, The Latin Project, adds more spice to the mix, further expanding their repertoire through an assortment of great dance music rethought from the perspective of “four regular guys” whose interests range well beyond the world-renowned musical institution that first brought them together.

Music

ALBENIZ Rapsodia Cubana
ALBENIZ Prelude from Chants d’Espagne
ALBINONI Adagio
ANDERSON Fiddle-Faddle
BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
BACH Aria “Sheep may safely graze” from Cantata BWV 208
BARROSO Brazil
CHABRIER Espana
COREA Spain
DEBUSSY Clair de Lune
DEBUSSY Golliwog’s Cakewalk
DEBUSSY Reverie
DE FALLA Jota (with singer)
DEJARDIN Variations on a New World
DEJARDIN The Wolfgang Variations
DEJARDIN The LvB Sandwich
DESENNE Bossa do Fim
D’RIVERA Aires Tropicales (with bass clarinet)
DVORAK Humoresque
FAURE Apres un reve (with solo cello)
FITZENHAGEN Konzertwalzer Opus 31
GIMENEZ Intermedio from “La Boda de Luis Alonso”
GRANADOS Andaluza from 12 Danzas Espanolas
HOSHII The Waltz of the Black Ants
HOSHII The Life of Birds
HOSHII Four Crayons
HUDGINS The Consolation of Philosophy (with percussion)
MENDELSSOHN Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
MOZART Overture to “The Abduction from the Seraglio”
MOZART Overture to “The Magic Flute”
MOZART Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro”
MOZART Sonata in D Major K.381
MUSSORGSKY 4 Movements from “Pictures at an Exhibition”
PART Fratres
PIAZZOLLA Adios Nonino
PIAZZOLLA La Muerte del Angel
POPPER Dance of the Elves
POPPER Suite Opus 16
PROKOFIEV Scherzo Humoresque
PROKOFIEV March from “The Love for Three Oranges”
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Flight of the bumblebee
ROSSINI Overture to “The Barber of Seville”
SANLIKOL The Blue Typhoon
SCHUBERT Marche Militaire
SCIORTINO Iber-Amer, 3 dances from Latin America
STRAUSS II Roses from the South
TCHAIKOVSKY Valse sentimentale (with solo cello)
VERDI Overture to “La Forza del Destino”
WALDEN James Bond Concertino (with orchestra)
WILLIAMS Theme from “Angela’s Ashes”

Videos

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