Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was nine years ago. Since then, the First Piano Quartet has crisscrossed the U.S. on concert tours, made dozens of recordings for RCA Victor (their Chopin Favorites album is No. 3 bestseller among classical albums), was co-winner of this year's Musical America award for the best instrumental ensemble on the air and helped NBC win the Peabody award for "good music." Last week, the First Piano...
...Quartet finally got around to its first Carnegie Hall concert...
...Mood. Manhattan concertgoers were just in the mood for what the quartet had to offer. (Says one quartet member: "You wait four hours at the opera for the Liebestod; we give it to them right off the bat.") And when the four boys had romped cleanly and lightly through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast...
...four of the pianists do the arranging. Each keeps in mind the special talents of the other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...
...Quartet. Four lively vignettes of Britons at home & abroad; from Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...