Artur Balsam Sonata for Viola/trio/quintet (The Budapest String Quartet) (CD) for Sale

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Artur Balsam Sonata for Viola/trio/quintet (The Budapest String Quartet) (CD) For Sale

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Artur Balsam Sonata for Viola/trio/quintet (The Budapest String Quartet) (CD):
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Title: Sonata for Viola/trio/quintet (The Budapest String Quartet)
Condition: New
Format: CD
EAN: 0090404917523
Edition: Album
Genre: Classical
Style: Chamber
Release Date: 08/22/2005
Description: Bridge is pleased to continue its survey of the Budapest String Quartet\'s great concert legacy. The Budapest Quartet was the resident group at the Library of Congress from 1940 to 1962, playing more than 450 concerts in the Coolidge Auditorium, and Artur Balsam was among their most frequent guest artists. This superb pianist, born in Warsaw in 1906, became Nathan Milstein’s accompanist in 1938 and in 1940, and followed the violinist to America. Among the other string players with whom Balsam worked were Adolf Busch, Zino Francescatti, Yehudi Menuhin, Erica Morini, Zara Nelsova, Oscar Shumsky and Joseph Szigeti. He died in New York City in 1994. The Hindemith sonata features Balsam with the oldest member of the quartet, Boris Kroyt (1897-1969). Hindemith is a composer many people will not ociate with ‘the Budapest’, but in 1943 the quartet commissioned Hindemith\'s Sixth String Quartet in E flat, premièring it at the Library. The famous Op. 11, No. 4 Sonata was more youthfully romantic than the sort of music Hindemith was producing by the time he himself premièred this sonata in 1919. Kroyt relishes this romanticism, lavishing lovely tone on Hindemith’s phrases. Brahms wrote his Horn Trio with the natural horn in mind, which accounts for its somewhat archaic melodic shape. Balsam anchors this fine performance, with pianism of true Brahmsian weight, and the horn part is taken by the distinguished American player John R. Barrows (1913-74). His artistry here, in a staple of the horn repertoire, is beyond praise. Taking the violin part is Jac Gorodetzky, the quartet\'s distinguished second violinist. Shostakovich wrote his Piano Quintet so that he could have something to play with his friends in the legendary Beethoven Quartet, and from its first performance in 1940 it was a huge success.
No Of Discs: 1
Artist: Artur Balsam
Record Label: Bridge
MPN: BRIDGE9175
Release Year: 2005

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Artur Balsam Sonata for Viola/trio/quintet (The Budapest String Quartet) (CD) For Sale

Artur Balsam Sonata for Viola/trio/quintet (The Budapest String Quartet) (CD): $24.53

Artur Balsam Sonata for Viola/trio/quintet (The Budapest String Quartet) (CD):
$24.53