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Mozart: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet with Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 8 sides). One of Mozart's most beguiling scores played in the grand manner by men who know their Mozart. Performance: excellent...
...customary to begin a review of a Budapest Quartet concert by launching into effusive praise of what has rightly been called the greatest string quartet of the twentieth century. A listener can only marvel at the Quartet's richness and clear, full tones, to say nothing of its amazing technical proficiency in all the intricacies of the string quartet...
Perhaps it was the infatuation with the sound of its own skill, however, that inspired the Budapest Quartet to provide such an unfortunate program as that of Friday night, as compared to the far superior program the night before...
Another surprising feature of this last quartet is that it contains no slow movements. Perhaps, however, the Budapest's slow playing of the allegretto second movement was justified, and provided a greater variety than if it has been played as originally indicated...
...unfortunate that such a chamber music group as the Budapest Quartet, in its only Boston appearance of the season, should, when restricted to three quartets, play those of Brahms and Mendelssohn as showpieces, rather than the far superior works of Haydn and Beethoven. Even with such a deficient program, however, the beauty of the group's tone and their remarkably close collaboration makes this concert one of the greatest pleasures of any musical season...