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...Budapest String Quartet (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Mozart's Quartet in A Major, Brahms's Quartet in C Minor...
Amidst all the talk about blues singers, jazz artists, and Koussevitzky lovers, the concert to be given November 10 by the Budapest String Quartet has been almost ignored. This is a great pity, for no instrumental organization in this country quite compares with the Budapest in consistent quality of execution...
...Budapest's secret lies in the magnificence of its 'cellist, Mischa Schneider. Neither Roismann nor Ortenberg, the two violinists, are the equal of others playing their instruments in other quartets, while Kroyt, on the viola, is not a Sander Roth. Through Schneider's excellence and intelligent rehearsal however, they achieve by far the best all over performances you are likely to hear. At Pierian's plebian prices, it is distinctly worth your while...
Last week's sellout audience compared the Paganini favorably with such well-established quartets as the Budapest, the Pro Arte and the Roth. The San Francisco Examiner's Alexander Fried took a longer view. Said he: "You don't pick a champeen after he's won one bout in Kalamazoo...
Beethoven: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet with Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 8 sides). A Mozartean caprice by a young (31) and untroubled Beethoven. Performance: good...