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Guarneri Quartet - Complete Rca Album Collection - Import 49 CD Box Set
Guarneri Quartet - Complete Rca Album Collection - Import 49 CD Box Set
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Guarneri Quartet
Description:
Compilation of all RCA recordings by the Guarneri String Quartet, a leader in string quartet performance in the second half of the 20th century. With full cooperation of Arnold Steinhardt. Includes one previously unreleased recording. In the early 1960s, four young musicians playing chamber music at the Marlborough Music Festival organized by Rudolf Serkin hit it off and formed a string quartet, which was given the name "Guarneri" by the Budapest SQ viola player Boris Kreuth, and became the 20th Century String Quartet The Guarneri Quartet gave its first concert in July 1964, and soon after signed a contract with RCA Red Seal. Over the next 45 years, with only one member change, the quartet performed around the world, building a vast, extensive, and award-winning discography. The new release joins Sony Classical's acclaimed album collection series. When their retirement was announced at the end of the 2008-09 season, renowned British critic Rob Cowan wrote in the British "Gramophone" magazine, comparing the Guarneri String Quartet to another outstanding quartet that has led the American music world for many years, the Juilliard String Quartet's Bal Talk performance (CDs 28-29), praising the quartet's "freewheeling, expressive and tonally rich" while the Juilliard is "as precise as cut glass." This characterization of the Guarneri String Quartet's playing is common to their performance reviews: two recordings for RCA were released in 1966---one coupling Dvořák and Smetana (CD 1), and the Mozart's late "Prussian" quartet (CD2)----beginning with the The U.S. "HiFi Stereo Review" magazine wrote, "Not since the Juilliard String Quartet turned its ear to the New York music world some 25 years ago has a new chamber music group created as much buzz as the Guarneri String Quartet on its New York debut (in February 1965)."The two discs eloquently demonstrate that Arnold Steinhardt, John Daly, Michael Tooley, and David Sawyer combine precision, flexibility of phrase, and rhythm in a way rarely seen in contemporary American string groups." Here we can see the influence of the master performers who were their wellspring--- Rudolf Zelkin, Alexander Schneider, Pablo Casals' Marlboro... The Guarneri Quartet brought fiery intensity and raucous rhythmic vitality to the Smetana ["From My Life"], and the wonderful slow movement of the Dvorak [Op. 105] gushed out of the stereo speakers with an almost orchestral richness, while the inner voices were perfectly balanced. The inner voices are perfectly balanced." (1/3) Sony Music
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