BaL 7.1.12 Haydn String Quartets Op. 33

[LeMartinPecheur]

Ashamed to say that my only complete op 33 is the Wellers, bought as LP (Decca SXL) deletions in 1972 just because they were cheap and I thought they were worth a gamble £2.50 the pair. Wish they'd been on 3 LPs with no works split between sides though. Now worth semi-serious money, maybe £30 each. Will be interested in a CD set with full repeats though!

[verismissimo]

I missed the end. Who won?

Sounded like Lindsays or Mosaiques.

[amateur51]

I missed the end. Who won?

Sounded like Lindsays or Mosaiques.

Twas the Lindsays, which are available only as a download, something I find very depressing (the download aspect, not the Lindsays ), writing as a 'late adopter'

Quartetto Casals was highly recommended too and is available on CD

[aeolium]

I thought it was a very interesting and enjoyable review. I loved the portamento of the Casals Quartet in one of the examples. I was slightly surprised by the choice of the Lindsays, as their performance is often quite raw, even rough. I actually preferred the extract from the Angeles Quartet in the B minor quartet to that from the Lindsays. The Mosaiques sounded very good, too.

[visualnickmos]

I only have the Kodalys in these, (Naxos) which, somewhat surprisingly, I thought, got short shrift in this BaL. I also liked the sound of the Angeles Quartet.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

do i recall years back when the Kodaly's were highly recommended in the Op 76?

many thanks to the reviewer, a bewitching essay as i lay in luxurious idleness this morning ....

[visualnickmos]

Yes - I recall the same thing. I seem to remember buying them on the strength of the hearing the extracts on said BaL.

[Caliban]

many thanks to the reviewer, a bewitching essay as i lay in luxurious idleness this morning ....

I listened in similar idleness this morning - it was so bewitching that I fell asleep and missed the second half, coming round for the result But that was nothing to do with the reviewer - it seemed like an exemplary BAL

I shall definitely listen to the section I missed. The music (which I'm ashamed to say I didn't know at all) was entrancing

Sounds from what I heard and from what fhg and others say above, that I have a treat in store

[Dave2002]

do i recall years back when the Kodaly's were highly recommended in the Op 76?

many thanks to the reviewer, a bewitching essay as i lay in luxurious idleness this morning ....

I'm sure you did, but different quartets! Also there was a time when there were atually two very similar versions of the Op 76 both by the Kodalys - both on Naxos.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm sure you did, but different quartets! Also there was a time when there were atually two very similar versions of the Op 76 both by the Kodalys - both on Naxos.

I think the Kodalys have only done the complete Op 76 once, but they did a separate (earlier?) single disc of just the three nicknamed works from this set. That one does appear to have succumbed to deletion. IIRC the BaL programme was on one of these three quartets, not the whole opus, and the reviewer went for the one from the Kodaly's complete set.