Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOZART: THE PIANO QUARTETS (Columbia). "Everyone was bored and yawning," wrote a Viennese society reporter in 1788, describing the winter-long rash of amateur performances of Mozart's new piano quartets by "this and that princess." Now the two quartets are listed among Mozart's finest works and are given pristine performances by Polish Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski and the violinist, violist and cellist of the Budapest String Quartet...
...HAYDN: QUARTETS, OPUS 54 (Westminster). The London-based Allegri String Quartet definitively explores three of the "Tost" quartets, all of which are characterized by the predominant role of the first violin, here brilliantly played by Eli Goren. In the C Major he tirelessly weaves a long garland of arpeggios and trills, then plunges into an adagio of exceptional beauty, tracing a hopeful obbligato above a deep-voiced Hungarian lament...
Even in paperback, the Alexandria Quartet, Anthony Powell's The Music of Time series, Gide's Journals and all of C. P. Snow are apt to stir poolside suspicion. Anyone who takes his summer reading seriously must weather such risks-or else tuck his Doctor Zhivago inside Doctor No. The lowbrow in search of status will reverse the process and hide Sexus under, say, Koestler's The Act of Creation. The camouflage problem is more complicated for the compulsive careerist, who always gets "some good new books" before he leaves on vacation. But how can he bury...
...their last in a series of three concerts, the Guarneri String Quartet will perform Mosart's Quartet in F Major, K. 590; Kirchner's Quartet (1949); and Smetena's Quartet No. 1 in E Minor (From My Life) tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theater...
...they played with more than just the skill and clarity and garce of four fine artists: they were a quartet from the first note to the last. It is this subordination of individual tendencies to the ensemble that makes the Guarneri String Quartet the rare group that...