Mozart Quartet No .16 (London String Quartet, c. 1916) скачать в хорошем качестве

Mozart Quartet No .16 (London String Quartet, c. 1916)

Mozart: Quartet No. 16 in E-Flat Major, K. 428 (abridged) The London String Quartet: Albert Sammons, violin I Thomas Petre, violin II H. Waldo Warner, viola C. Warwick Evans, cello Recorded c. 1916 for English Columbia, on 78-rpm matrices 6754 through 6757, and issued as L 1043 and L 1044 in July and August, 1916. The work is identified on the labels as "Quartette 14" - obviously the people at Columbia were using a different numbering system for the Mozart quartets! The work is in four movements, all of which are abridged here except the third: 1. Allegro non troppo 2. Andante con moto (at 4:00) 3. Menuetto (at 7:16) 4. Allegro vivace (at 11:00) Founded in 1908 by the great violinist Albert Sammons, who remained with the group until called up for military service in 1917, the London String Quartet pioneered in the recording of whole string quartets and other chamber works, albeit in abridged form (usually, one movement per side), as opposed to the isolated movements and excerpts that were the norm at the time. Beginning with this Mozart recording, the London String Quartet went on to record no less than 24 such sets during the acoustical era, first for Columbia, then Vocalion (c. 1920), then again for Columbia (in 1924, by which time the works were being recorded complete). Their Vocalion set of the Schumann Piano Quintet (with Ethel Hobday) was responsible for Compton Mackinzie's interest in the gramophone, and hence of his founding "The Gramophone" in 1923. As this magazine, under his leadership, was one of the primary voices pushing for complete recordings of symphonic and chamber works at a time when these were rare and potboilers were ubiquitous, the importance of the London String Quartet cannot be overestimated.