Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...privacy in which it can try itself on to see how it looks." For Miss Wright, who deserves to be left alone, there is no privacy, only Organization and its evils: Conformity, Regulation, Stupidity. "I would like to have one tiny foible," she explains. "I would like to save string, be scared of the telephone, let my heels run over, not wear gloves. Sometime I would like to make a little scene...
...went down to noble defeat (1955) and had to go out of business. Almost all of Beethoven's chamber music has been recorded and most of Mozart's (good recent Mozart bets: two versions of four gracious, lighthearted Flute Quartets, on Vanguard and Epic, and six String Quintets on Columbia...
Many reluctant record buyers believe that chamber music is colorless and dull, hear only the scraping of strings. But often there are no strings attached, as in Rossini's racy, unfailingly amusing Quartets for Woodwinds (Period). Many listeners have come to realize that even string works-Schubert's Death and the Maiden, Beethoven's last quartets-can be as poignant as any symphony. In some cases, record buyers have bitten hard at chamber music, e.g., the Westminster version of Schubert's lusciously Viennese "Trout" Quintet sold 100,000 copies in five years and is still going...
Beethoven: the Late Quartets Nos. 12-16 (Hollywood String Quartet; Capitol, 5 LPs). Despite its frivolous name-its members are movie studio musicians-the Hollywood Quartet is a first-class outfit, and it meets this Everest of chamber music on its own heights. It lacks the bite, power and drive of the Budapest, whose Beethoven performances are unique, but its tone is warmer. In the haunting sighs and groans of the tragic No. 14, the Hollywood dips beneath the surface to the inner life of a matchless work...
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...