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Mozart String Quartets and Quintets Barchet Quartet Vox Boxes
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rebuild queens hall
Aug 5, 2012, 1:40:58 PM8/5/12
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Can anyone confirm if the Mozart Barchet Vox were recorded in stereo or mono only. I have only been able to find mono recordings ?.
Tassilo
Aug 6, 2012, 7:57:27 AM8/6/12
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On Sunday, August 5, 2012 1:40:58 PM UTC-4, rebuild queens hall wrote:
> Can anyone confirm if the Mozart Barchet Vox were recorded in stereo or mono only. I have only been able to find mono recordings ?.
I can’t answer your question, but I can steer readers toward a performance of Mozart’s “Hunt” quartet, the string quartet no. 17 in B flat major, K. 458, with the Barchet on Youtube:
> Can anyone confirm if the Mozart Barchet Vox were recorded in stereo or mono only. I have only been able to find mono recordings ?.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZMngVzf5iI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOo-Ar8VHGM
I believe the Barchet Quartet’s recording of the Mozart quintets has been reissued on CD, and I’m curious to learn more about them: a friend of mine in college used to swear by the Barchet, but I know very little about them. Can you give us a little more information on the quartet?
-dg
Edward Cowan
Aug 10, 2012, 10:37:28 AM8/10/12
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I recently listened to a few recordings of Mozart's quartet D. 590.
These included the Barchet on Vox LP sets (mono), the Alban Berg qt.,
the Quartetto Italiano, and an early Budapst qt. recording from the
1930s. The Barchet seemed to me to be very pedestrian and out of the
running. The Alban Berg sounded very aggressive and un-Mozartean. Much
better were the Italiano and the Budapest, the latter especially. The
finale, in particular, requires just the light but energetic kind of
performance heard on this Biddulph CD. I am reminded of the way Beecham
conducts the little number for the three Genii in Act 2 of his Berlin
recording of _Die Zauberfl�te_. I have the later Budapest qt.
recording, ca. 1955, on order, in a reissue on United Archives. --E.A.C.
rebuild queens hall <pmfb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can anyone confirm if the Mozart Barchet Vox were recorded in stereo or
mono only. I have only been able to find mono recordings ?.
-- hrabanus
These included the Barchet on Vox LP sets (mono), the Alban Berg qt.,
the Quartetto Italiano, and an early Budapst qt. recording from the
1930s. The Barchet seemed to me to be very pedestrian and out of the
running. The Alban Berg sounded very aggressive and un-Mozartean. Much
better were the Italiano and the Budapest, the latter especially. The
finale, in particular, requires just the light but energetic kind of
performance heard on this Biddulph CD. I am reminded of the way Beecham
conducts the little number for the three Genii in Act 2 of his Berlin
recording of _Die Zauberfl�te_. I have the later Budapest qt.
recording, ca. 1955, on order, in a reissue on United Archives. --E.A.C.
rebuild queens hall <pmfb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can anyone confirm if the Mozart Barchet Vox were recorded in stereo or
mono only. I have only been able to find mono recordings ?.
Edward Cowan
Aug 10, 2012, 10:53:24 PM8/10/12
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A correction: Mozart's quartet is, of course, K. 590. I must have had
Schubert on my mind... <grouch, mumble, et al.> --E.A.C.
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hrabanus
Schubert on my mind... <grouch, mumble, et al.> --E.A.C.
hrabanus
Herman
Aug 11, 2012, 4:45:10 AM8/11/12
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Le vendredi 10 août 2012 16:37:28 UTC+2, Edward Cowan a écrit :
> I recently listened to a few recordings of Mozart's quartet D. 590.
>
> These included the Barchet on Vox LP sets (mono), the Alban Berg qt.,
>
> the Quartetto Italiano, and an early Budapst qt. recording from the
>
> 1930s. The Barchet seemed to me to be very pedestrian and out of the
>
> running. The Alban Berg sounded very aggressive and un-Mozartean. Much
>
> better were the Italiano and the Budapest, the latter especially. The
>
> finale, in particular, requires just the light but energetic kind of
>
> performance heard on this Biddulph CD. I am reminded of the way Beecham
>
> conducts the little number for the three Genii in Act 2 of his Berlin
>
> recording of _Die Zauberflöte_. I have the later Budapest qt.
> I recently listened to a few recordings of Mozart's quartet D. 590.
>
> These included the Barchet on Vox LP sets (mono), the Alban Berg qt.,
>
> the Quartetto Italiano, and an early Budapst qt. recording from the
>
> 1930s. The Barchet seemed to me to be very pedestrian and out of the
>
> running. The Alban Berg sounded very aggressive and un-Mozartean. Much
>
> better were the Italiano and the Budapest, the latter especially. The
>
> finale, in particular, requires just the light but energetic kind of
>
> performance heard on this Biddulph CD. I am reminded of the way Beecham
>
> conducts the little number for the three Genii in Act 2 of his Berlin
>
>
> recording, ca. 1955, on order, in a reissue on United Archives. --E.A.C.
>
>
The 590 is in F major, Mozart's 'crazy' key. A lot of Mozart's works in this key have this hypernervous energy. I'm guessing this is why the ABQ play the piece the way they do. The Italiano and the Budapest are great, too.
> recording, ca. 1955, on order, in a reissue on United Archives. --E.A.C.
>
>
fosterg
Aug 12, 2012, 10:08:49 PM8/12/12
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On Sunday, August 5, 2012 1:40:58 PM UTC-4, rebuild queens hall wrote:
> Can anyone confirm if the Mozart Barchet Vox were recorded in stereo or mono only. I have only been able to find mono recordings ?.
They are mono only.
The first Vox Boxes (Barchet's Mozart, the Schubert Piano Sonatas, etc were all taken from earlier singles Lps or Deluxe Boxes (DL series) reduced in price.
Foster G
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