Amadeus Quartet / Beethoven, Mozart.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Amadeus String Quartet, performer.

Contributor:

Aronowitz, Cecil, performer.

Lancelot, Jacques, 1920-2009, performer.

Loursais, Claude, director.

Gavin, Barry, director.

Hirsch, Antoine, director.

Deflandre, Claude, director.

Tipping, Roy, director.

Bardet, Pierre-Olivier, producer.

Wright, Stephen, producer, producer.

Idéale Audience International, producer.

IMG Artists (Firm), producer.

British Broadcasting Corporation, producer.

EMI (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Classic archive ; 31.

Classic archive ; 31

Language:

English

French

German

Spanish

Subjects (All):

String quartets.

Quintets (Clarinet, violins (2), viola, cello).

String quintets (Violins (2), violas (2), cello).

Quintets (Clarinet, violins (2), viola, cello)--Excerpts.

String quartets--Excerpts.

Genre:

String quartets.

Performances.

Television programs.

Excerpts.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (111 min., 27 sec.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : EMI Classics, 2004.

Language Note:

Menu languages: English, French, German and Spanish.

System Details:

DVD-9; PCM mono. 2.0; aspect ratio 4:3; dual layered disc; NTSC; no regional coding.

digital

optical

mono

NTSC

video file

DVD video

Contents:

String quartet no. 17 in B flat major, K. 458 : "The Hunt" ; String quintet no. 3 in G minor, K. 516 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Cecil Aronowitz, viola II (2nd work))

String quartet no. 4 in C minor, op. 18/4 ; String quartet no. 6 in B flat major, op. 18/6 / Ludwig van Beethoven

Bonus: Clarinet quintet in B minor, op. 115. III: Andantino

Presto non assai, ma con sentimento / Johannes Brahms (Jacques Lancelot, clarinte)

String quartet no. 16 in F major, op. 135. III: Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo / Ludwig van Beethoven

String quartet no. 14 in D minor, D. 810 : "Death and the maiden". IV: Presto / Franz Schubert

String quartet no. 4, SZ 91. IV: Allegro pizzicato / Béla Bartók.

Participant:

Amadeus Quartet.

Credits:

Producers, Pierre-Olivier Bardet (Idéale Audience International) and Stephen Wright (IMG Artists). Directed by Claude Loursais (1st work), Barrie Gavin (2nd work), Antoine Hirsch (3rd-4th works), Claude Deflandre (1st bonus work), Roy Tipping (2nd-4th bonus works) Film restoration producers, Kaléo Films, Idéale Audience. Sound analysis and restoration, Charles Schlumberger, Lobster Films. Editorial concept (DVD production), Jacques Spohr.

Notes:

Title from disc surface.

An Idéale Audience International & IMG production ; released with the participation of BBC, INA, CNC. The 1st, 3rd-4th works and the 1st bonus work from the INA Archives; the 2nd work and the 2nd-4th bonus works from the BBC Archives.

Filmed: at the ORTF, Paris, April 29, 1956 (1st work), December 4, 1969 (3rd-4th works), December 8, 1971 (1st bonus work); in London, June 1, 1966 (2nd work); at the Livery Hall of the Stationers' Company, London, March 23, 1973 (2nd-4th bonus works)

"This DVD contains an electronic booklet in pdf form with authoritative essay and archive photographs which can be accessed from any computer equipped with DVD-ROM and Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0"--Container. Notes by Stephen Johnson in English with French, German, and Spanish translations.

EMI Classics: 7243 99684 9 0 (on container: DVB 5996849)

Contains:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, K. 458, B♭ major

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Quintets, violins (2), violas (2), cello, K. 516, G minor

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 4, op. 18, no. 4, C minor, composer.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 6, op. 18, no. 6, B♭ major, composer.

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Quintets, clarinet, violins (2), viola, cello, op. 115, B minor. Andantino.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 16, op. 135, F major. Lento assai e cantante tranquillo

Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, D. 810, D minor. Presto

Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 4. Allegretto pizzicato.

OCLC:

57767719

Publisher Number:

724359968490

7243 99684 9 0 EMI Classics

DVB 5996849 EMI Classics