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It was a great listen...Treble at times right up to the limit, yet well controlled, fantastic extension and clarity on the horns and strings. It's quite a dark and brooding piece, isn't it ?
While there may be a few clues during listening as to the "vintage" of the recording, they sure got some things very right, didn't they? Wonderful music presented with excellence.
Lee
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Lee,
Besides Endellion Quartet, have you heard Beethoven String Quartets by Busch Quartet? I have read these 1932 recordings are legendary, unsurpassed...and quite high quality having been remastered properly by Dutton.
Sorry, I haven't. The Emerson Quartet and the Alban Berg Quartet both have great versions, different, but both very good too.
Lee
Hi Gents,
So i just received the Dutton remasters of the Busch Quartet. First, let me say for a 1932 recording, i am stunned. If the Endellion Quarter recording is a random '100' score, the Busch Quartet recording feels like a 75!!! And, to give you some perspective, a typical 1932 recording in my book would be probably have so much crackle, it would be at 25-30...
I am incredibly impressed. In any event, as to the interpretations by Busch Quartet, so far on op.18 no.1 (first CD, first track on both), i find them incredibly similar in their approach which is a good thing, as i enjoy endellion. however, there is just something to the refinement of how they finish off their notes which adds just the slightest touch of old-world romance to the Beethoven...but again so close to Endellion it still feels very very disciplined...kinda like Horowitz on piano who is probably one of my favorite all around pianists even though i have Richter, Brendel, Perrahia, bernard roberts, Angela hewitt, stephen kovacevich, michael pletnev...
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Lloyd - You simply amaze me with your knowledge of classical music. Just wanted to say that.
Lloyd - You simply amaze me with your knowledge of classical music. Just wanted to say that.
Hardly! seriously!...i am just happy to share an opinion, that's all!
Hardly! seriously!...i am just happy to share an opinion, that's all!
You do it very well my friend, and you haven't steered me wrong yet. Your comment are most appreciated.
Too kind.
this also probably means u should equally recommend to me since we seem to share similar taste in classical! BTW, i still spend much of my using Penguin Guide as a ref, and listening to snips on Amazon before making a purchase. i dont always go with Penguin...and have found things i prefer...Furtwangler's WWII recordings are very poor quality recordings but wonderful interpretations...very, very much like Horowitz...disciplined, romantic...technically, very very controlled with still a romantic touch.BTW, to be more specific, when you heard the upper and mid-range of the violin, you do hear a little of that '1940's radio' thinness/stridency, lack of warm/full ambient room/soundstage...but you actually find suprisingly solid mid-registers for the cello. And very strongly in its favor, there is nary a bit of hiss for such a recording and in the context of much classical being recording 20-50 years ago...it hits well in the upper quartile on that one element. Aside from that 1940's radio steely feel to the upper end of the violin, I could otherwise say I wouldn't be surprised if the recording was from 1960.
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