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SCHUBERT: String Quartets Nos. 13, 14 and 15 (Columbia ML 4831/2/3); HAYDN: Six Quartets, Op. 76 (Columbia ML 4922/3/4). Masterpieces of chamber music performed by the elegant Budapest Quartet...
Partly because of Viet Nam, Russian diplomats long described their dealings with the U.S. as "frozen." The Paris peace talks helped to warm things up a few degrees. Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia would once again seriously chill the diplomatic atmosphere. It was Russian tanks in Budapest, in fact, that abruptly froze a momentary thaw in 1956. The difficult balance between deep-freeze and detente can be frustrating, says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, since it offers none of "the clarities of either unambiguous war or unalloyed peace." But, troubling as the ambiguities of Honolulu and Prague...
...conducts an orchestra, is he a prima donna of the podium. Frequently, in fact, he is not even on the podium, preferring to lead unobtrusively from within the ranks with a toss of his head and a wave of his bow. Nor, as an intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second fiddle-and to all but his enthusiastic admirers he remains the dim background figure that second fiddlers are supposed...
...announced that the Soviet troops were beginning to leave. No one knew, however, how long it would take for them to clear out. Many worried Czechoslovaks recalled that Soviet tanks had begun leaving Hungary, then suddenly turned around and come back to crush the rebels in the streets of Budapest...
...Berlin's mayor), it was a tough session. Though he issued no blustery warnings, Brandt made it clear that Bonn would not allow itself to be provoked into abandoning its policy of improving relations with the East bloc -a policy whose moderate success in Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade and Budapest obviously seemed to Ulbricht and his Soviet backers to be a dangerous flanking operation...