http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/ Bela BARTOK Club - Let's talk about Bart?k B?la and his music Fri, 22 May 2009 06:17:48 GMT Lawrence J Lemer http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/881 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/881 Have you all fallen into a collective coma? Has everything that could be said about Bartok already been said? This is most regrettable! Fri, 15 May 2009 08:07:55 GMT L J L http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/880 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/880 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ernst_von_Dohnanyi_Appreciation/ I'm in love with a new composer, Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor Ernst von Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:09:41 GMT Bruce R. Gillespie http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/879 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/879 Thanks, Eric. I was listening last night to my Hagen Quartet version, second disk, last night. It has on it the 3rd, 5th and 6th Quartets. Magnificent, Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:04:21 GMT elraeburn http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/878 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/878 ... Pierre and Bruce, The Hungaroton is the first Takacs recording, when Takács-Nagy and Ormai were still in the group. The Decca is the second, from the Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:40:46 GMT Pierre Csillag http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/877 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/877 ... You are right, Doug. However, a great part of that aspect of the Hungarian folk music (and of Bartók's music) includes some peculiarities of the Hungarian Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:19:46 GMT R. Douglas Barbieri http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/876 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/876 Would it be instead of a language "accent" would you more mean a cultural flavor? Hungarians were raised in Hungarian culture, steeped I would imagine in the Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:11:40 GMT Pierre Csillag http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/875 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/875 ... I didn't speak about the Emerson Quartet, I never heard their Bartók quartets. I said the Takács Quartet performs without any foreign accent, but I Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:06:41 GMT rugby52732 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/874 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/874 ... I mean their manner of playing ... In what ways are the Emerson Quartet performances "foreign" ? Thanks. Rugby Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:30:47 GMT Pierre Csillag http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/873 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/873 ... I have a Takacs Quartet version (Hungaroton HCD 12502, the copyright is from 1984, is it the first or the second version?), and the Alban Berg Quartet Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:51:39 GMT Bruce R. Gillespie http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/872 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/872 Hi, Riwall: I have the first Takacs Quartet version, the Emerson Quartet version, and the Hagen Quartet version. All with great strengths, but there is Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:05:51 GMT LOUARN Riwall VIACCESS-DOS http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/871 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/871 Hi Bruce, ... The Fine Art Quartet release : http://www.musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD1176.html is also very fine version. Listen to it. ... And which are they ? Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:59:06 GMT LOUARN Riwall VIACCESS-DOS http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/870 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/870 Hi Eric ... Yes again. "Valois", a dead label, has first published this Vegh 1972 release. Riwall ... "Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:16:08 GMT Bruce R. Gillespie http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/869 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/869 Thanks, Riwall, for the link to the original Vegh Quartet version of the Bartok Quartets. I have these still on LPs, but the LPs are just a bit worn. Still the Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:14:23 GMT elraeburn http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/868 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/868 Riwall, Thanks very much for confirming this, and for pointing out the 1954 mono. I have that one--it clearly indicates 1954 mono, but apparently there have Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:34:49 GMT Riwall LOUARN http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/867 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/belabartokclub/message/867 Hello Eric, ... YES, this is the 1972 stereo recording. The mnono recording is on "Music & Arts" label: http://www.musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD1169.html Riwall