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- From: rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: Opinions sought: Beethoven's Late String Quartets
- Date: 28 Dec 92 12:16:53
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- In-reply-to: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu's message of 28 Dec 92 15:32:15 GMT
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- In article <Dec.28.10.32.15.1992.18827@math.rutgers.edu> bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh) writes:
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- >John Grabowski posts:
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- >Possibly my favorite recording in my entire collection is of the Op.
- >131 String Quartet transcribed for an entire string orchestra.
- >Conducted by Bernstein, with the Vienna Phil., it's not the textbook
- >way to do it, but it is nonetheless, a stunning musical experience.
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- My impression was diametrically opposite to this one: I thought it
- worked about as well as using a chorus of sixty-odd distinguished
- actors as the protagonist in _Hamlet_. Oh, what rogues and peasant
- slaves are we! Instead of four focused single lines, you get some-
- thing perilously close to Mantovani (anybody remember him?).
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- I have a CD by Sandor Vegh that uses 4 or 5 instruments for each part.
- It has a richer sound than a quartet would, but it doesn't feel
- overdone.
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