Shostakovich Quartet 15

[Mandryka]

7 adagios. Who makes it come alive?

[Alex Brown]

On 2021-12-17 12:25, Mandryka wrote:
> 7 adagios. Who makes it come alive?

A performance which makes it "come alive" has failed ;-)

DSCH said "Play the first movement so that flies drop dead in mid-air
and the audience leaves the hall out of sheer boredom."

I like the Keller Quartet on ECM.

[Chris J.]

On 17 Dec 2021 Alex Brown wrote:

>> 7 adagios. Who makes it come alive?

> A performance which makes it "come alive" has failed ;-)

True.

Chris.

[Sol L. Siegel]

Alex Brown <ad...@adjb.net> wrote in
news:hr2dnZB60LtGAyH8...@giganews.com:

> On 2021-12-17 12:25, Mandryka wrote:
>> 7 adagios. Who makes it come alive?
>
> A performance which makes it "come alive" has failed ;-)
>
> DSCH said "Play the first movement so that flies drop dead in mid-air
> and the audience leaves the hall out of sheer boredom."

There's a cruel irony to that anecdote. During the process of rehearsing
for the premiere, Sergei Shirinsky, the founding cellist of the Beethoven
Quartet, suffered a heart attack while waiting for a bus and died. The
premiere went to the Tanayev Quartet instead.

>
> I like the Keller Quartet on ECM.

The Danish Quartet, also on ECM, has the measure of it. My other
favorites, the early Fitzwilliam and yes, the Beethovens, are also
up there - but the former can only be had in the complete set -
still worth having - and an individual disc of the latter, which
has been issued on Melodiya and Consonance, is all but unobtainable.
It can, however, be downloaded. (Beware that Praga disc, which claims
to be a live performance - it's the studio recording, presented in mono!)

- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA

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[Mandryka]

I’m liking The Danish Quartet It is indeed lively, alive, they bring it to life! Thanks for pointing it out.

[Bob Harper]

Is anything on Praga what it says it is other than the recordings by the
Prazak Quartet? I exaggerate, of course, but there's been a lot of fishy
stuff on that label.

Bob Harper

[Frank Berger]

Some known Praga errors (sorry for the formatting): Claimed Actual

250394 Beethoven Sym 5 Karajan Berlin PO Nov-61 11/14/1962

250048 Grieg PC (Richter) Kondra shin Moscow PO 1977 1964

250053 Shostakovich Sym 10 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1955 3/3/1976

250090 Shostakovich Sym 4 Rozhdestvensky USSR Ministry of Culture SO misattributed as live in Prague
Shostakovich Two Pieces from Scarlatti Rozhdestvensky Wind Sections of the USSR State SO 1981 1979
for Wind Orchestra

254017 Shostakovich Sym 6 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1955 1972
Shostakovich Sym 12 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1962 1961

256016 Shostakovich Sym 5 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1967 1978

256017 Shostakovich Sym 6 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1955 1972
256017 Shostakovich Sym 12 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1962 1961

256018 Shostakovich Sym 11 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1967 1959

350054 Prokofiev PC#2 (Zak) Sanderling (Kurt) USSR Large SO 1951 1959

[Mandryka]

Anyone heard the Schoenberg Quartet’s recording? I’m tempted because I like everything I’ve heard from them, but it’s expensive so please say if you know it or know a cheap source for it!