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Quartet recording in past years has often been a slip-shod business. Victor especially seems contented just to get the sound down on wax and let it go at that. Not so, however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his own right, welded together into the kind of unit you find in a good crew or ball team. Other quartets have the same precision, and occasionally the same warmth of tone, but the Budapest people have that extra something that brings the music to life and gives it symphonic dimensions...
Luckily, the Budapest Quartet isn't hiding its light under a bushel. They can be heard every Sunday morning over some Columbia stations from 11:05 till 12, and Columbia has just released their excellent reading of the Beethoven 11th, or "serioso" quartet. They are at their best in this playing of Beethoven's sombre, powerful music, and the recording is highly recommended to anyone who still thinks quartets dull or stuffy...
Tonight in Sanders Theatre, Alexander Schneider, one of the Budapest Quartet's violinists, and Ralph Kirkpatrick '31 will play the second in their series of Bach and Mozart sonatas for violin and harpsichord. There is no excuse for not going to one of these concerts. Both artists are masters of their instruments, and no recordings of these sonatas, played as they should be played, with harpsichord accompaniment, are available...
...free, public, chamber music concerts will be given at Sanders Theatre, tonight and tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock by Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord, and Alexander Schneider, violinist, of the Budapest String Quartet. No tickets are required...
...Cairo.) Kippy went to school in Switzerland and Germany, returned to the U.S. to graduate from Dartmouth (1913). Then he began a long odyssey through U.S. consulates, legations and embassies, became equally at home in the salons of Paris, international cocktail parties in Geneva, the polo fields of Budapest...