The half-a-century-long story of the Budapest Quartet -- the tale of how an all-Hungarian ensemble became an all-Russian ensemble while moving from Budapest to Berlin to Paris to London and finally to the U.S. -- is too interesting and too complicated to bear retelling in so small a space. Suffice it to say, the 1933 and 1934 Beethoven recordings on this disc capture the group during its transition from an all-Hungarian to an all-Russian ensemble. In 1931, Russian second violinist Joseph Roisman had finally driven out the ...
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The half-a-century-long story of the Budapest Quartet -- the tale of how an all-Hungarian ensemble became an all-Russian ensemble while moving from Budapest to Berlin to Paris to London and finally to the U.S. -- is too interesting and too complicated to bear retelling in so small a space. Suffice it to say, the 1933 and 1934 Beethoven recordings on this disc capture the group during its transition from an all-Hungarian to an all-Russian ensemble. In 1931, Russian second violinist Joseph Roisman had finally driven out the group's original Hungarian first violinist and leader and usurped his place. Russian violinist Alexander Schneider, brother of cellist Mischa Schneider, was hired to take Roisman's chair, leaving only Hungarian violist Istvān Ipolyi from the original group -- and, by 1936, he, too, had been replaced by a Russian. The three-quarters Russian Budapest Quartet's approach to Beethoven is lean, clean, and sometimes a bit mean. This works well in its dark-hued and hard-driven E minor...
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