--- Bruce R. Gillespie wrote:
>
>...the second Takacs version...are probably out of print...
--- Pierre Csillag wrote:
>
>...Takacs Quartet version (Hungaroton HCD 12502, the copyright
> is from 1984, is it the first or the second version?)...
Pierre and Bruce,
The Hungaroton is the first Takacs recording, when Takács-Nagy and
Ormai were still in the group. The Decca is the second, from the
mid-1990s (see the wikipedia article on the Takacs Quartet). The
Decca is still in print, and so far as I can tell, so is the earlier
one. Search Amazon for Bartok and Takacs and they both pop up.
The Decca is the Takacs version that I have listened to, and I think
it is great. I have only one complaint and that is with the mixing
and not the playing. There is a passage in measures 14 - 20 of the
scherzo of the 5th in which some very wonderful pizzicato counterpoint
lines are barely audible. I never even heard these lines until I
listened to a different recording. I have not studied this recording
with the score enough to know if any other passages got lost. But I
still think this is a wonderful performance, and a recording worth owning.
Hello, Bartok Lovers, I am trying to find the 1972 stereo recording of the string quartets by the Vegh Quartet. There is a CD that seems readily available...
Hello Eric, ... YES, this is the 1972 stereo recording. The mnono recording is on "Music & Arts" label: http://www.musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD1169.html Riwall...
Riwall, Thanks very much for confirming this, and for pointing out the 1954 mono. I have that one--it clearly indicates 1954 mono, but apparently there have...
Hi Eric ... Yes again. "Valois", a dead label, has first published this Vegh 1972 release. Riwall ... "Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in...
Thanks, Riwall, for the link to the original Vegh Quartet version of the Bartok Quartets. I have these still on LPs, but the LPs are just a bit worn. Still the...
Bruce R. Gillespie
gandc@...
Dec 11, 2008 5:16 am
Hi Bruce, ... The Fine Art Quartet release : http://www.musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD1176.html is also very fine version. Listen to it. ... And which are they ? ...
Hi, Riwall: I have the first Takacs Quartet version, the Emerson Quartet version, and the Hagen Quartet version. All with great strengths, but there is...
Bruce R. Gillespie
gandc@...
Dec 11, 2008 9:51 pm
... I have a Takacs Quartet version (Hungaroton HCD 12502, the copyright is from 1984, is it the first or the second version?), and the Alban Berg Quartet...
... I didn't speak about the Emerson Quartet, I never heard their Bartók quartets. I said the Takács Quartet performs without any foreign accent, but I...
Would it be instead of a language "accent" would you more mean a cultural flavor? Hungarians were raised in Hungarian culture, steeped I would imagine in the...
... You are right, Doug. However, a great part of that aspect of the Hungarian folk music (and of Bartók's music) includes some peculiarities of the Hungarian...
... Pierre and Bruce, The Hungaroton is the first Takacs recording, when Takács-Nagy and Ormai were still in the group. The Decca is the second, from the ...
Thanks, Eric. I was listening last night to my Hagen Quartet version, second disk, last night. It has on it the 3rd, 5th and 6th Quartets. Magnificent,...
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