SIX STRING QUARTETS
SIX STRING QUARTETS
BARTOK / SORKIN / LOFT / ILMER / SOPKIN
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Condition: New, UPC: 0176851176260, Publication Date: 01/24/2006, Type: COMPACT DISC, Style: CLASSICAL/CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS,
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String Quartet No.1, Op.7 (1908)
I Lento
II Poca A Poco Accelerando Al Allegretto
(Introduzione.) Allegro; III Allegro Vivace
String Quartet No.2, Op.17 (1917)
I Moderato
II Allegro Molto Capriccioso
III Lento
String Quartet No.3 (1927)
I Prima Parte. Moderato
II Seconda Parte. Allegro
III Ricapitulazione Della Prima Parte, Moderato; Coda. Allegro Molto
String Quartet No. 4 (1928)
I Allegro
II Prestissimo, Con Sordino
III Non Troppo Lento
IV Allegretto Pizzicato
V Allegro Molto
String Quartet No.5 (1934)
I Allegro
II Adagio Molto
III Scherzo. Alla Bulgarese (Vivace)
IV Andante
V Finale. Allegro Vivace / Presto
String Quartet No.6 (1939)
I Mesto / Più Mosso, Pesante / Vivace
II Mesto / Marcia
III Mesto / Burletta
IV Mesto
From A 1959 Chicago Television Program: Bartók's First Quartet Discussed By Members Of The Fine Arts Quartet [Audio Only]
Music Intro -- Ending Of Bartók Quartet No. 1
Pellegrini: Introduction To TV Program
Rehearsal Discussion: Voices Heard, In Sequence -- Pellegrini, Sorkin, Sopkin, Ilmer, Pellegrini, Loft.
Excerpt: Mvt. 3, Sorkin Introduces Examples (Working Back From End Of Quartet), Loft Shows Illustrations, Examples Are Played.
Pellegrini; Loft Lists Movement Titles, Describes Form. Excerpt, Opening Of 1st Movement. Loft Shows Graph Of Melodies, With Examples
Loft Describes Melodic Construction, Sopkin Illustrates With Shaped-Wire Graph, Sorkin Describes Four-voice Texture, Ilmer Introduces Example
Closing Phase Of 1st Movement; Sopkin Sets Stage For New Section, Loft Introduces Examples, Shows Illustrations; Examples Are Played.
Sorkin Introduces Excerpt From End Of 1st Movment; Sopkin, Pellegrini.
Loft, Then Sorkin, Discuss Transition; Examples Played.
Discussion About Contrast; Sorkin Introduces Example; Ilmer, Closing Excerpt
Introduzione: Pellegrini; Sopkin Cites Fanfare That Announces The Introduction; Sopkin And Sorkin Play Their Respective Cadenzas In That Section
3rd Movement: Loft Leads Off: Ilmer Plays Dance-like Theme Transformation; Sopkin And Loft Cite Later Excerpt.
Pellegrini: Conclusion

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The acclaimed 1959 Concert-Disc recordings • Digitally restored from the original masters

℗ 2006 Music & Arts Programs of America, Inc. [Printed on back of box]
℗ 2005 Music & Arts Programs of America, Inc. [Printed on individual CD discs]

Recorded in 1959 in the Masonic Hall, Wilmette, Illinois
First released on the Concert Disc label on three stereo LPs, CS-207/209

CD3 tracks 5 to 17: WTTW Channel 11, Chicago, Illinois television presentation: The Fine Arts Quartet Plays Bartok: (Leonard Sorkin and Abram Loft, violin; Irving Ilmer, viola; George Sopkin, violoncello); with program announcer, Norman Pellegrini. Discussion of Bartok String Quartet No. 1. (26:41)

Three CDs, each in its own white, round-window paper sleeve, inside a hardboard hinged box, which includes a 24 page booklet, notes in English.

Note -- No timing is given for Track 7 on CD3.

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Composed By – Béla Bartók
Engineer, Edited By – Leonard Sorkin
Liner Notes – Abram Loft
Performer, Ensemble – The Fine Arts Quartet
Producer – The Fine Arts Quartet
Remastered By [2005, from original master tapes] – Maggi Payne
Viola [The Fine Arts Quartet] – Irving Ilmer
Violin [The Fine Arts Quartet] – Abram Loft, Leonard Sorkin
Violoncello [The Fine Arts Quartet] – George Sopkin

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Licensed From – Countdown Media
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Music And Arts Programs Of America, Inc.
Recorded At – Masonic Hall, Wilmette, Illinois
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