Word: trampler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Major, opus 81. Czechoslovakia may be under someone's thumb but Czech music is very much alive. This gorgeous piece was very well played. The cellist distinguished himself with a beautiful, full, resonant opening and the ensemble played with much more rhythmic unity and dynamic cohesion. Walter Trampler was superb throughout the Dvorak. There was an evident feeling for the ebb and flow of the beautiful melodies, lines which sing and soar over the often complex texture of this magnificent quintet. The new quality in their playing was the ability to sustain an idea to its conclusion. The "Dumka" section...
...third for stereo. Haydn, Schubert and Brahms were staples as well, and moderns like Bartok, Milhaud and Hindemith were regularly included. To everything they played, the foursome brought a Toscanini-like elegance of outline within which the music pulsed with expressive passion. Says Violist Walter Trampler, their "fifth man" in quintet performances since 1955: "They had temperament and fire. Some people have lots of that, but they get carried away. The Budapest players were always in control...
...took 22 years before Roisman and Mischa addressed each other by their first names, and Alexander to this day has never attempted such informality with his colleagues Roisman or Kroyt. Says Seattle Symphony Conductor Milton Katims, who preceded Trampler as the group's extra violist: "It was like four married people trying to keep their relationship fresh and spontaneous...
...later years, Mozart liked to play the viola; so he added a darker color to the string quartet by doubling the viola's voice. The five late quintets contain, besides the expected felicitous melodies, melting modulations and sprightly symmetries, some rich polyphony and dramatic interchanges. Walter Trampler brings his viola to the Budapest String Quartet, which is constantly updating its repertory to take advantage of improved recording techniques. This is their third recording of the quintets; they can stop...
Possibly St. Robert Bellarmine was "a human bridge." But he was far less "trampled upon" than himself a trampler. He was connected with the Inquisition which, among its other crimes, was responsible for the horrible burning of the heretic philosopher, Giordano Bruno. It is a terrible sort of separation of church and state that makes it possible for the church to turn over a heretic to be burned by the secular...