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The Guarneri Quartet plays the Complete Beethoven String Quartets
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)Complete String Quartets including the Great FugueGuarneri QuartetArnold Steinhardt violinJohn Dalley violinMichael Tree violaDavid Soyer celloRecorded for Philips in New York between 1987 and 1991This reedition Decca Eloquence 2007digital download, coverAmerica's Guarneri Quartet recorded the complete string quartets of Beethoven twice -- once in stereo for RCA in the late '60s and then again in digital for Philips in the late '80s and early '90s. The earlier set was recorded at the height of the group's youthful fame, and the performances burn with passionate strength and sensuous energy. The later set was recorded at the first flush of the digital era, and the performances glow with musical wisdom and emotional maturity. Some listeners might prefer the earlier set's driven tempos and hard-edged ensemble; others might incline toward the later set's judicious tempos and smooth-cornered ensemble. There's no doubting the earnestness of either set's performances: Arnold Steinhardt, John […]
2017-03-05 08:20:37
Végh Quartet (Praga Digitals) (2 CDs)The autobiographical story of Bartók’s six string quartets is as powerful as that of Beethoven’s quartets: a lifelong absorption in the form, which produced utterly compelling and completely distinctive pieces. From the meditative First of 1909, through the rhapsodic Second of 1918 and the acerbic Third of 1929, to the elegiac Sixth of 1939, these works reinvent the string quartet form. They have surely never found more idiomatic interpreters than the Végh Quartet, recorded in 1954, with a profound understanding of the idiom, finding the earthy folk roots in so much of this music, bringing it to life with a touch of old-fashioned portamento and restrained vibrato; supremely eloquent. Continue reading...
2012-12-05 17:03:00
Danco/Kolisch/Steuermann/Zillig/Kraus/Stadlen/Varga/Vegh Quartet/Berlin PO/Fricsay (Audite, four CDs)This fascinating anthology brings together recordings of works by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern made between 1949 and 1965 in the studios of RIAS, the west Berlin-based radio station. A number of works included were then being recorded for the first time; what began as an act of restitution, a project to restore the reputations in Germany of three composers whose music had been condemned as "degenerate" by the Nazis, also became an important documentary archive. It brought together singers and instrumentalists who had worked with all three composers with artists from a new postwar generation who were tackling this repertory for the first time.Inevitably it's the links with pre-war Vienna that seem the most potent. Eduard Steuermann, who played in the first performance of Pierrot Lunaire in 1912, plays Schoenberg's works for solo piano with wonderful expressive warmth; Peter Stadlen, a former pupil of Webern […]
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