The Budapest String Quartet in Washington : (1959-1961).

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Serkin, Rudolf, 1903-1991, instrumentalist.

Budapest String Quartet, instrumentalist.

Language:

English

French

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

String quartets.

Piano quintets.

Genre:

String quartets.

Piano quintets.

Live sound recordings.

Chamber music.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (82:29) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic metal 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[France] : Praga Digitals, [2017]

System Details:

digital optical stereo

1.4 m/s

audio file

CD audio

Participant:

The Budapest String Quartet (Joseph Roisman, Alexander Schneider, violins ; Boris Kroyt, viola ; Mischa Schneider, cello) ; with Rudolf Serkin, piano (3rd work).

Notes:

Title from container verso.

"Genuine stereo lab."

Jan Gorodetzky is listed as the 2nd violinist in the 1st work, recorded in 1959, but he died 4 years earlier.

1st work recorded live 1959 November 13 Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

2nd work recorded live 1961 October 5 Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

November 13, 1959 is also given erroneously as the recording date of the 3rd work. It was performed by the quartet with Serkin on two Library of Congress programs: April 21-22, 1955 and April 6, 1956; in the period 1959-1961, it was performed on the March 16-17, 1961 program, but with Artur Rubinstein as pianist.

Compact disc.

Program notes in English and French (11 pages) inserted in container.

Contains:

Container of: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 3, op. 44, no. 1, D major

Container of: Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, op. 41. No. 1

Container of: Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Quintet, piano, violins (2), viola, cello, op. 44, E♭ major

OCLC:

1015224707

Publisher Number:

3149028117028

PRD 250 391 Praga Digitals

250 391 Praga Digitals