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Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 (the Griller String Quartet; English Decca, 4 sides). The Griller players add a little unbecoming weight to "The Bird," one of Haydn's best string quartets, but it still flies gayly and engagingly. Recording: good...
Mozart: Quartet in 6 Major, K.387 (Griller String Quartet, English Decca, 8 sides). One of Mozart's greatest; the performance lacks the fire to make it great. Recording: good. Concerto in A Major, K.488 (Clifford Curzon, pianist, with the National Symphony Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Another great work, played by one of Britain's best pianists. In this dull, muffled recording, however, it sounds as if his piano were out in the wings...
Last week Violinist Griller had some news that he did not tell the audience in Wheeler Hall: for the next three years, chamber music students at the University of California could watch and learn from the Griller String Quartet at work. The Griller would be the university's first "quartet in residence...
...since four teen-age students at London's Royal Academy of Music had gone together to a concert of Belgium's famed Pro Arte String Quartet, of which Maas was the cellist. They came away determined to form a quartet of their own. The four-Violinists Sidney Griller and Jack O'Brien, Cellist Colin Hampton and Violist Philip Burton-decided over a pint of beer that the way to become a quartet was to live together, break all family ties, refuse engagements to play separately...
...money they made bought them a year of rehearsal time. They played whenever & wherever they could, giving concerts in barns, corn exchanges and the homes of friends. They finally got to play the Mendelssohn Octet with the Pro Arte String Quartet ("they were the gods"). Says Griller: "We had terrific competition-the Budapest, the Busch, all the finest. But we worked our way, rather like worms." For a while they did not even have a name. "I had gone over to Ireland to visit my girl. When I got back, the other three told me they...