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...first-rate group like the Juilliard has proved that American string players are the equal of any produced out of the classic European mold. Yet, in the minds of many chamber music connoisseurs, another group comes even closer to the elegant perfection of the old Budapest: the Guarneri String Quartet, which made its New York debut...
Special Resources. If the Guarneri is indeed Budapest's heir, it could not have been more properly anointed. It was founded at Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival at the suggestion of the Budapest's own second violinist, Alexander Schneider; its name was supplied by Budapest Violist Boris Kroyt, who had once played with a now defunct European quartet called the Guarneri (after the 18th century Italian violinmaker). Despite its distinguished sponsorship, the quartet's success is the result of its own special musical resources. First Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, 32, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), darkly...
...country," and he certainly has the alumni to prove it. Most of the brightest young soloists in the U.S. are Galamian products; Itzhak Perlman, Young Uck Kim, Jaime Laredo, Paul Zukofsky and James Oliver Buswell IV. In addition, Galamian has trained top chamber players like Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet and orchestra concertmasters like David Nadien of the New York Philharmonic...
...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, and the Guarneri Quartet...
Youth and age were in close contact as Rubinstein and the members of the superb quartet worked through the spacious, gypsy-tinged passion of Brahms, accepting, rejecting, arguing and agreeing as four equal colleagues. Rubinstein "discovered" the Guarneri last year, when he heard tapes of the quartet's first studio session. "There was an immediate chemical reaction," says RCA Victor Producer Max Wilcox. So far, one result of that chemistry has been released, the Brahms Piano Quintet. The Schumann Piano Quintet will be issued soon. Were the quartet members awed by a collaboration involving a 50-year...