Bartók: Complete String Quartets Nos. 1-6
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It's a cruel fact of the marketplace that as fine a recording as this can nevertheless seem superfluous. The Keller Quartet plays very well, at a technical standard that, despite a few moments of coarse tone, would have seemed incredible a couple of decades ago. The interpretations range from reasonable to intensely involving, always doing honor to this great music. But with the intimidating standard set by the Emerson Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon), this excellent recording still cannot rank higher than as an interesting alternative worth hearing when you're looking for comparisons. --Leslie Gerber
Bartók: Complete String Quartets Nos. 1-6, Music, Otto Kertesz, Bela Bartok, Keller Quartet, Zoltan Gal, Andras Keller, Janos Pilz, Chamber, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Quartet for Four String Instruments
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Bartók: Complete String Quartets Nos. 1-6
Manufacturer: Erato
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ASIN: B000005EEK
Release Date: 1995-11-07 |
Tracks:
- String Quartet No.1, Op.7: I - Lento
- String Quartet No.1, Op.7: II - Poco a poco accelerando - Allegretto
- String Quartet No.1, Op.7: III - Introduzione (Allegro) - Allegro vivace
- String Quartet No.2, Op.17: I - Moderato
- String Quartet No.2, Op.17: II - Allegro molto capriccioso
- String Quartet No.2, Op.17: III - Lento
- String Quartet No.4: I - Allegro
- String Quartet No.4: II - Prestissimo, con sordino
- String Quartet No.4: III - Non troppo lento
- String Quartet No.4: IV - Allegretto pizzacato
- String Quartet No.4: V - Allegro molto
Tracks:
- String Quartet No.3: Prima parte - Moderato
- String Quartet No.3: Seconda Parte - Allegro
- String Quartet No.3: Ricapitulazione della prima parte - Moderato: Coda - Allegro Molto
- String Quartet No.5: Allegro
- String Quartet No.5: Adagio Molto
- String Quartet No.5: Scherzo - Alla bulgarese
- String Quartet No.5: Andante
- String Quartet No.5: Finale - Allegro vivace
- String Quartet No.6: I - Mesto - Vivace
- String Quartet No.6: II - Mesto - Marcia
- String Quartet No.6: III - Mesto - Burletta-moderato
- String Quartet No.6: IV - Mesto - Keller Quartet
Amazon.com
It's a cruel fact of the marketplace that as fine a recording as this can nevertheless seem superfluous. The Keller Quartet plays very well, at a technical standard that, despite a few moments of coarse tone, would have seemed incredible a couple of decades ago. The interpretations range from reasonable to intensely involving, always doing honor to this great music. But with the intimidating standard set by the Emerson Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon), this excellent recording still cannot rank higher than as an interesting alternative worth hearing when you're looking for comparisons. --Leslie Gerber
Customer Reviews:
Neglected Bartok cycle.......2001-08-08
Both the Penguin Guide and Gramophone Magazine have praised this recording (now reincarnated at super-bargain price on the Ultima label) as being 'echt'-Bartok, in the tradition of the Vegh quartet, but with richer, digital recording, a greater sense of vibrancy and truer intonation. Indeed, Sandor Vegh himself in the sleeve-note praises the Keller's "true sense of communication" with this staggeringly powerful music. These readings easily surpass, among digitally recorded rivals, such showy names as the Emersons or the Juilliards (1981 cycle), as this Hungarian ensemble seems far closer to both the spirit and the soul of this music, as well as being spectacularly accomplished technically. Along with the Vegh and the Takacs, highly recommended, and at the new price (see Ultima reissue) hard to beat.
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- Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Fantasia
- Beethoven: Symphony No 7; Haydn: Symphony No. 101; Mendelssohn: Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets 1952 Recordings [Box set]
- Bernstein: Arias & Barcarolles; Barber: School for Scandal Overture; Gershwin: American in Paris
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