Word: parrenins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bartok: Complete String Quartets (Parrenin Quartet; Westminster, 3 LPs). These six quartets were written over a period of 30 years, between 1908 and 1939. Even the earliest reveals a musician of size and depth. Impressively played, all reveal a dazzling ability to create new sounds about old torments, a gift for making strings do everything but talk. Sometimes, in the strange musical idiom Bartok invented, they seem to do even that...
...concentration; also, it lacks a conductor, whose dramatics an audience can follow. Today, the way for a quartet to establish a name is to play, of all things, modern music. Reason: it brings almost certain notoriety with the public, and awe with other musicians and critics. Paris' rising Parrenin Quartet* has done just that. Last week touring the U.S. for the first time, the group played in Manhattan's Public Library; it lived up to its notoriety, inspired its share...
...group was becoming familiar to French radio listeners, but the members still supported themselves and their wives by jobbing in local orchestras. In 1948 Delvincourt lent them a house in Paris (willed to him by a music-loving friend). "It was very little, very dirty, very uncomfortable," says Jacques Parrenin. "Our wives didn't want to live there." Actually, after some refurbishing, all members and their families have lived there contentedly for the past eight years, played from morning till night. They got a few concert dates, and in 1952 came the break: they were asked to play...
...Named, as are many quartets, after the first violinist. The members: Jacques Parrenin, Marcel Charpentier, Serge Collot, Pierre Penassou...
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