{"product_id":"budapest-quartet-brahms-string-quartets-quintets-sextet-1932-37-pacm119","title":"BUDAPEST QUARTET Brahms String Quartets, Quintets, Sextet (1932-37) - PACM119","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartets Nos. 2 \u0026amp; 3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quintets Nos. 1 \u0026amp; 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Sextet No. 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1932-1937\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 26:04\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBudapest String Quartet:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJoseph Roisman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (violin I)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAlexander Schneider\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (violin II)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eIstván Ipólyi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e or *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBoris Kroyt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (viola)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMischa Schneider\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (cello)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ewith \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAlfred Hobday, Hans Mahlke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (viola)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAnthony Pini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (cello)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM119.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nThis release is the third in a series which, when finished, will present\nthe complete pre-war recordings of the Budapest Quartet. One volume with\nsome of the ensemble’s earliest recordings from the 1920s has already\nappeared (on Pristine PACM 098), followed by a second featuring rarities\nthat had previously seen scant, if any, previous reissues (PACM 113). The\npresent volume features all of the Brahms recordings the quartet made\nduring this period.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Budapest Quartet was founded in 1917 by four members of the Budapest\nOpera Orchestra, three Hungarians and a Dutchman. By 1932, when the\nearliest of the recordings presented here was made, only one of the\noriginal members (Hungarian violist István Ipólyi) was still in the group,\nwhile the other three positions had been taken by Russians (actually two\nLithuanians – the Schneider brothers – and the Ukrainian Roisman, all born\nin what was at the time part of the Russian empire). Their different\ntraining styles led to many contentious arguments within the group, which,\nunusually for the time, developed its interpretations by consensus, with\none member designated as an authority for a particular composer to break a\ntie, if necessary. These disputes usually pitted Ipólyi against the three\nputative Russians, leading to his departure in 1936. He was replaced by the\nUkrainian Boris Kroyt, who is heard in two 1937 recordings presented here\n(Opp. 36 and 88), and who would continue with the group until it disbanded\nin 1967.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe behind-the-scenes drama did not carry over into the actual\nperformances, which display a high degree of unanimity of conception and\ndisciplined ensemble playing. Critic Harris Goldsmith likened the quartet\nto “a kind of chamber music equivalent to that icon of symphonic music,\nArturo Toscanini”, writing that their performances “shared with the Italian\nmaestro an easily recognizable (and then distinctly modern) technical\nbrilliance, a certain streamlining of architecture, a pervasive rhythmic\nvirility, unfussy phrasing and momentum [. . .] an analogous lean\ntransparency and vertical clarity, and beautiful intensity and silkiness of\ntone.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Budapest’s first Brahms recordings were made in Berlin toward the end\nof 1932, most likely in anticipation of the composer’s centenary the\nfollowing year. The ensemble already had a connection to Brahms through its\noriginal cellist, Harry Son, who had studied under David Popper. Popper had\nbeen the cellist of the Hubay Quartet, whose members were befriended (and\noften accompanied in performance) by Brahms. Although Son left the group in\n1930, being replaced by Mischa Schneider, the lone original founding member\nof the quartet, the violist Ipólyi, was still on hand to ensure continuity\nof approach.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe recordings of the Third Quartet and the Second String Quintet were made\nsimultaneously during these sessions (the matrices of the second and third\nmovements of the Quintet were recorded between the two sides of the\nQuartet’s first movement, while the rest of the Quintet was taken down\nbetween the two sides of the Quartet’s second movement). The guest violist\nwas the German Hans Mahlke. The tempo of the Quartet’s first movement was\nenergetic enough to allow a repeat, something the Budapest did not observe\nin their more broadly-paced LP remake in 1954.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe next Brahms recording made by the Budapest was the Second Quartet in\n1935. They would probably have gone onto record the First Quartet had HMV\nnot already had the Busch Quartet’s version in their catalog. Their final\nprewar Brahms recordings were made at back-to-back sessions in 1937. The\nSecond String Sextet (the Budapest’s only recording of the work) was set\ndown with British violist Alfred Hobday and Argentine-British cellist\nAnthony Pini, followed the next day by First String Quintet with Hobday\nalone. It would not be until 1950 that a new Budapest Quartet Brahms\nrecording would appear, after more personnel changes in the group had taken\nplace.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBUDAPEST QUARTET\u003c\/b\u003e plays Brahms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCD 1 (74:00)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\nString Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 1st Mvt. – Allegro non troppo (8:46)\u003cbr\u003e2. 2nd Mvt. – Andante moderato (9:25)\u003cbr\u003e3. 3rd Mvt. – Quasi Minuetto, moderato – Allegretto vivace (5:18)\u003cbr\u003e4. 4th Mvt. – Finale: Allegro non assai (7:00)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 30 April \u0026amp; 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