Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet is a ballet created by New York City Ballet original ballet master (and co-founder) George Balanchine to Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (1861) orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg in 1937. The premiere took place Tuesday, April 12, 1966^[1] at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Karinska, original lighting by Ronald Bates and current lighting by Mark Stanley.

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet was Balanchine's first abstract ballet made for the stage at the New York State Theater (City Ballet had previously performed on the smaller stage of City Center of Music and Drama, its home since its founding until its move to the New York State Theater.)

Balanchine is quoted as saying that chamber music was unsuited to full ballets, chamber pieces being "too long, with too many repeats, and [are] meant for small rooms." Schoenberg expressed similar feelings about the Brahms Piano Quartet; that it "is always very badly played, as the better the pianist, the louder he plays, and one hears nothing of the strings." He orchestrated it at the instigation of conductor Otto Klemperer, who conducted its premiere performance in 1937, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

NYCB principal dancer Yvonne Borree chose to include the Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet in her farewell performance, Sunday, June 6, 2010.

Casts

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Main article: Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet casts

First movement

Allegro

Melissa Hayden
Gloria Govrin

André Prokovsky

8 women

4 men

Second movement

Intermezzo

Patricia McBride

3 women

Conrad Ludlow^[1]

Third movement

Andante

Allegra Kent

Edward Villella

3 female demi-soloists

12 women

Fourth movement

Rondo alla Zingarese

Suzanne Farrell

8 women

Jacques d'Amboise

8 men

Notes

1 2 The Balanchine Foundation website states that the premiere was held April 21 following a preview at the annual City Ballet gala benefit April 19 and that Kent Stowell partnered Patricia McBride in the second movement Intermezzo, whereas the NYCB website gives Conrad Ludlow as Ms. McBride's partner and April 12 as the date of the premiere.

References

Playbill, New York City Ballet, Thursday, June 19, 2008

Repertory Week, New York City Ballet, Spring Season, 2008 repertory, week 8

Reviews

NY Times by Clive Barnes, April 22, 1966

NY Times by Alastair Macaulay, June 10, 2008

External links

Balanchine Foundation website

Balanchine Trust website

NYCB website

Ballets by George Balanchine

A la Françaix A Midsummer Night's Dream Agon Allegro Brillante Apollo (stagings) Le baiser de la fée Le Bal Ballade Ballo della Regina Bayou Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Bourrée fantasque Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet Bugaku Chaconne (stagings) Le chant du rossignol Circus Polka Clarinade Concertino Concerto Barocco Coppélia Cortège Hongrois Divertimento Brillante Divertimento from “Le Baiser De La Fée” Divertimento No. 15 Don Quixote Donizetti Variations Duo Concertant Élégie L'enfant et les sortilèges Episodes (stagings) Etude for Piano The Firebird The Four Temperaments (stagings) Garland Dance Gounod Symphony Haieff Divertimento Harlequinade Hungarian Gypsy Airs Ivesiana Jeu de cartes Jewels (stagings) Kammermusik No. 2 Liebeslieder Walzer (stagings) Meditation Metamorphoses Metastaseis and Pithoprakta Monumentum pro Gesualdo (stagings) Movements for Piano and Orchestra Mozartiana Noah and the Flood The Nutcracker Orpheus Pas de Dix Pas de Trois (Glinka) Pas de Trois (Minkus) Pavane The Prodigal Son Pulcinella Ragtime I Ragtime II Raymonda Variations Requiem Canticles Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze Scherzo à la russe Scotch Symphony Serenade The Seven Deadly Sins Slaughter on Tenth Avenue La Sonnambula Sonatine La source Square Dance Stars and Stripes The Steadfast Tin Soldier Stravinsky Violin Concerto Swan Lake Sylvia Pas de Deux Symphonie Concertante Symphony in C Symphony in Three Movements Tango Tarantella (stagings) Theme and Variations Le tombeau de Couperin Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 Tzigane Union Jack La valse Valse-Fantaisie Variations Variations for Orchestra Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir Vienna Waltzes Walpurgisnacht Ballet Western Symphony (stagings) Who Cares? (stagings) Zenobia

List of ballets by George Balanchine

Arnold Schoenberg

Orchestral	Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38

Concertante	Violin Concerto, Op. 36 Piano Concerto, Op. 42 Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (1933)

Chamber	String quartets (1897, Opp. 7, 10, 30, 37) Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 Wind Quintet, Op. 26

Instrumental	Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 Suite for Piano, Op.25 Zwei Klavierstücke, Op. 33

Opera	Erwartung, Op. 17 Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18 Moses und Aron (1930-32) Von heute auf morgen, Op. 32

Oratorio	Gurre-Lieder (1900-1911) Die Jakobsleiter (1917-22) Prelude to Genesis Suite, Op. 44 A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46

Vocal	Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op. 15 (1908/09) Herzgewächse, Op.20 Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 Four Orchestral Songs, Op. 22

Other pages	List of compositions Expressionist music Sprechstimme Students Neoclassicism 6-20 6-Z44

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