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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...
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (RCA Victor, 4 LPs). The nine players present a well-balanced, impeccably performed concert of Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Poulenc, Villa-Lobos, Alexei Haieff, and the young American, Michael Colgrass. Having done so, they then upstage themselves by turning the fourth disk of the album over to a delightful discussion of chamber music by Peter Ustinov. "A Walter Mitty as far as music is concerned," Ustinov gives his imitations of a flute ("With my long, pendulous upper lip, I do better without the flute") and bassoon ("a very romantic instrument"). His musical god is Mozart. Noting that...
...ebullient, frizzy-haired "Sasha" Schneider is, at 59, a second fiddler the likes of which chamber music has rarely seen. Whirling like a dervish around the fringes of the limelight, he is not only a tireless performer but also an enormously influential catalyst and organizer, teacher and tastemaker. Wherever he goes, music seems to happen around him through a sort of spontaneous combustion...
...Festival in Puerto Rico. He is one of the guiding spirits of Pianist Rudolf Serkin's Marlboro Festival in Vermont. An indefatigable organizer of concerts, he has created such benign features of New York City musical life as the free outdoor performances in Greenwich Village and the offbeat chamber series at Manhattan's New School. A restless exponent of widening the repertory, he once formed a Schneider String Quartet expressly to perform all 83 of Haydn's quartets. He has been musical godfather to numerous younger musicians, among them Pianist Peter Serkin, Violinist Jaime Laredo...
Sanders Theatre provided a real challenge for Alexander Schneider and Chamber Ensemble Monday night during the first of five concerts to be presented by the Harvard Summer School. The theatre was filled to capacity and programs used as fans provided the only ventilation aside from the windows, which allowed the noise of motorcycles, honking horns, and fire sirens to compete with the music...