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In Reply to: RE: 50s Bartok Quartet cycle with the Juilliard Remastered by Pristine: Fantastic posted by jdaniel@jps.net on September 11, 2016 at 14:55:01
The Juilliard are very fine, but I think you can go better.Better for me is either the Hungarian Qt. or the Tatrai. I went through an exhausting process of listening to a whole bunch of different versions.
My listening preference is not for drama, tension, and excitement in itself, or for any added "passion". What I listen for is how much the music makes sense purely as music - melody, harmony, inner logic, if that makes sense.
The Tatrai and Hungarian quartets are very close to this music - they "get it". Two very intelligent and idiomatic readings. Hungarian is more lyrical, Tatrai is very focussed and the architecture and flow is very clear. Hard to choose. Hungarians have a closer and more immediate recording, Tatrai more dry and a more medium perspective.
In many places with the Tatrai you think - "that's exactly right - how could you phrase it any differently?", and then in other places you feel the same way about the Hungarians. I'd probably give the nod to the Tatrai - whatever recordings you eventually choose, do hear this one - I think it's really special.
Tatrai - Hungaraton 1966
Hungarian - DG 1962
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One day as a college student, I entered our music building lobby and headed towards the practice rooms upstairs, greeted by the usually cacophony of instrumental noise. Somewhere in the din I noticed a Bartok string quartet (no. 4, maybe?) I stopped, thinking, that sounds well beyond what any of my classmates are capable of doing.
It was the New Hungarian Quartet in the recital hall, giving a free recital. The violist carried over from the original Hungarian quartet. They made a lot of records for Vox, including a complete Bartok cycle.
I mean, he just gave up vinyl, and now he has access to all these post-1985 recordings. And you're sending him back to the 60's for the Bartok quartets? C'mon, man - give him some time to catch up! ;-)
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I'm talking about the Tatrai Quartet here on |Hungaroton from 1966 - not the Takacs. That's quite different.
The Tatrai isn't easy to find, but it is available and probably around $50 or so. I bought the CDs because I just had to have them, and I wanted the CD quality not an MP3 download.
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