Hungarian Quartet, Laszlo Varga - Schubert: String Quartets 13-15, String Quintet (2003)

Posted By: tirexiss
Date: March 2, 2023

Hungarian Quartet, Laszlo Varga - Schubert: String Quartets 13-15, String Quintet (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:36:39 | 840 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 7243 5 85526 2 1

While these recordings by the Hungarian Quartet contain perfectly acceptable performances and adequately idiomatic interpretations of Schubert's later chamber music for string quartet and quintet, they contain nothing more than that. In the late '50s and early '60s, the Hungarian Quartet was a widely respected group playing in the central European tradition of plumy intonation, sugary sonorities, sometimes scrappy ensemble, and often sentimental interpretations. But acceptable and adequate may not be exactly what is wanted in Schubert's later chamber music. In the A minor, Schubert sings of life and love and loss. In the String Quartet D minor, Schubert propounds the mysteries of death and dying. In the G major, Schubert explores the boundary between agony and ecstasy. In the String Quartet in C major, Schubert goes beyond agony and ecstasy and love and death to live in a world of sublimated emotions and sublime sounds. And the Hungarian's sugary sentiment just does not cut it. EMI's stereo sound is more than adequate, but less than acceptable.
AllMusic


Track List:

CD 1:
String Quintet in C Major, D 956
with Laszlo Varga : violoncello 2
Recorded in 1970

1. I. Allegro ma non troppo / 14.06
2. II. Adagio / 13.33
3. III. Scherzo: Presto - Trio: Andante sostenuto / 11.08
4. IV. Allegretto - Piu allegro - Piu presto / 9.46

String Quartet No.13 in A minor 'Rosamunde', D 804
Recorded in 1958

5. I. Allegro ma non troppo / 8.56
6. II. Andante / 7.21
7. III. Minuetto. Allegretto / 7.01
8. IV. Allegro moderato / 6.29

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CD 2:
String Quartet No.15 in G Major, D 887
Recorded in 1968

1. I. Allegro molto moderato / 12.47
2. II. Andante un poco mosso / 10.22
3. III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace / 6.58
4. IV. Allegro assai / 10.01

String Quartet No.14 in D minor "Death and the Maiden", D 810
Recorded in 1958

5. I. Allegro / 11.19
6. II. Andante con moto / 13.54
7. III. Scherzo. Allegro molto / 3.25
8. IV. Presto / 8.40

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Performers:
Hungarian Quartet
Laszlo Varga (Cello 2)

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