In Reply to: ". . . the Concord actually plays out of tune. So what!" posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 11, 2016 at 12:13:00:
ThanKs for your thorough reply. The Smetana set that I admire is the one on the Supradphon most of all the Opus 130. I own the Denon set and agree with your assessment.Hollywood is a great quartet and probably because of the poor pressings I replaced them with the Quartet Italiano. I had great hopes for the Vegh Quartet which failed to my taste in the late quartets. Likewise the Bartok: all of which I still have on LP.
I have but a few of the Tatrai quartet playing Beethoven, on Telfunken pressings. I have the middle quartets and Opus 127. They are the finest performances I have ever heard. I have also listened to them on live tapes from WKCR in NYC from Budepest festival in the 1970's. A very great quartet.
Have you any thoughts on the Fine Arts performances, available in another age on EVEREST. I remember them as very straight forward. At the time I was trading off the Hungarian and the Amadeus...so they are not fresh in my recollection.Do try the Concord if you can and giv e us a shout. Thanks Chris!
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Follow Ups
- RE: ". . . the Concord actually plays out of tune. So what!" - Utley1 12:50:15 01/11/16 (6)
- I have the Fine Arts Everest LP sets... - briggs 09:22:05 01/12/16 (4)
- RE: I have the Fine Arts Everest LP sets... - Utley1 10:50:44 01/12/16 (3)
- Fine Arts Quartet -- and a Pleasant Surprise - briggs 13:34:24 01/12/16 (2)
- RE: Fine Arts Quartet -- and a Pleasant Surprise - Utley1 13:52:48 01/12/16 (0)
- RE: Fine Arts Quartet -- and a Pleasant Surprise - Utley1 13:41:31 01/12/16 (0)
- Strange - I never did hear any of the Fine Arts Quartet performances [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 21:26:27 01/11/16 (0)