Schumann: Piano Quintet, 2nd mvmt (Balsam, Budapest Quintet)
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Keywords: Schumann; Artur Balsam; Budapest Quartet; DWTKenInNY
...The Budapest Quartet had a stormy history but maintained a high standard for half a century, 1917-67. Beginning as a group of three Hungarians and a Dutchman, it metamorphosed during its second decade (1927-36) into a Russian ensemble, and that line-up became established in the United States. Arising out of the Budapest Opera Orchestra, the quartet was founded on democratic lines, each man having a vote. It made its début in Kolozvar (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), in December 1917 and in 1920, after a change of second violin, moved to Berlin. It could soon offer some 65 works, including all the Beethoven quartets. On 12th January 1925 it made its London début at the Aeolian Hall. Another second violinist left in 1927, to be replaced by the first Russian, Joseph Roisman (1900- 74). In the spring of 1931, the Russian cellist Mischa Schneider (1903-85) joined the ensemble. The group made its New York début on 4th January 1931 but the following year the leader Emil Hauser left, to be replaced by Roisman, and Schneider’s younger brother Alexander (1908-93) became second violin. The Hungarian violist Istvan Ipolyi continued until 1936, when he was replaced by Boris Kroyt (1897-1969). The all-Russian formation won great success, emigrating to the United States, where it became resident at the Library of Congress, but the stability lasted only eight years before Alexander Schneider decided to leave. Replacements Edgar Ortenberg and Jac Gorodetzky were no match for him and in 1955, following the latter’s death, he returned for the last phase of the ensemble’s career.
The Budapest Quartet worked with many fine pianists, among them George Szell, Artur Balsam, Miecyzslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. A favourite was the Englishman Clifford Curzon (1907-82), who studied with Charles Reddie (a pupil of Stavenhagen) at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and later with the Leschetizky pupils Katharine Goodson and Artur Schnabel. After two years in Berlin with Schnabel, Curzon went to Paris, where Wanda Landowska and Nadia Boulanger influenced him. He made his United States début in 1939 and after the war was recognised as one of the great pianists. He was made CBE in 1958 and knighted in 1977....
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