I've been listening to Beethoven's String Quartet in C# minor, Op. 131 while following the score. Is this not the greatest piece of music ever written? I...
While I agree that the first half of the quartet is arguably Beethoven's greatest and most original composition, I will attempt to make that observation ...
From Dr David Wright's article on what makes a great composer? Bartók's music is highly original. He never composed an off-colour piece. He did not use...
... Be glad that Bartok gets off so lightly, unlike Britten, Chopin, Elgar and others. In defence of the site that publishes him, some articles do get removed...
I'm doing a clear out and wondered if anyone would be interested in this book ? It's Selected Writings of Zoltan Kodaly, originally 1964 first English...
Hello everyone, I just joined the group this evening...thanks for having me! I'm giving a concert in Highlands Ranch, CO on May 2, and I'm singing Bartok's...
Hello everyone, Â Sorry about the last message. That was not meant for the group. Â I am very remiss for not contacting the group before this. I have not...
Hi, Christine: I'm a bit puzzled. I thought I was already in the club, although I haven't posted for some time. Best wishes Bruce Gillespie [Non-text portions...
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Jul 12, 2008 10:47 am
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Hello everyone, Â Sorry about the email about the personal invitation. It was for a networking group and it went to our group by mistake. Everyone is still a...
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...
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...
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Dec 11, 2008 5:16 am
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Hi Eric ... Yes again. "Valois", a dead label, has first published this Vegh 1972 release. Riwall ... "Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in...
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
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Dec 11, 2008 9:51 pm
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... 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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http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ernst_von_Dohnanyi_Appreciation/ I'm in love with a new composer, Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor Ernst von...
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