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...play the viola; so he added a darker color to the string quartet by doubling the viola's voice. The five late quintets contain, besides the expected felicitous melodies, melting modulations and sprightly symmetries, some rich polyphony and dramatic interchanges. Walter Trampler brings his viola to the Budapest String Quartet, which is constantly updating its repertory to take advantage of improved recording techniques. This is their third recording of the quintets; they can stop...
...quintet, but the effect in his rambunctious opening movement is more like 60 strings than six. With its robust peasant dances, twining lines of song and sudden hushes and crescendos, Tchaikovsky's tribute to Florence is theatrical and Slavic. The new Guarneri Quartet, joined by half the Budapest Quartet, manages an almost symphonic treatment of the composer's work...
When Kodály entered the Budapest Conservatory as a young, sandaled Bohemian, he was appalled at the tyrannical influence of the German professors who, he snorted, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." Determined to develop "the natural mother tongue of every Hungarian composer," he teamed with another ardent nationalist, Bela Bartók, and armed with primitive Edison recording machines, roamed the Magyar countryside and collected 12,000 folk songs...
...years his senior, he married a comely blonde music student, Sarolta, who was 56 years his junior. She acted as intermediary and hostess for Kodály who, as the dean of European composers and Hungary's most revered citizen, received an endless stream of visitors in his Budapest apartment during his last years. A shy, slight, spade-bearded man with the face of an El Greco apostle, he admonished people to "go to the peasants. Hear them sing. You can't learn from musical scores only...
...socialist camp's dirty linen in public, and 3) adopting the general attitude that all socialist foreign policy must be aimed at pleasing Ulbricht. >Hungary is chagrined at the East Germans and the Poles for creating a commotion over the issue and thus making it more difficult for Budapest to go ahead (as it wants to) and recognize West Germany...