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Артист: The Budapest String Quartet Альбом: Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets, 1940 Издатель: Pristine Classical / PACM065 Жанр: Classical Формат файла: iso.wv, covers Ссылка 1: CD 1 Ссылка 2: CD 2 60 clicks Ссылка 3: CD 3 51 clicks Нахождение: eDonkey/Torrent Примечание: спасибо доброму человеку в ньюсах. Замечательное качество звука (40й год!)

TRACKLIST

1. Ravel Quartet - 1st mvt. - Allegro moderato 2. 2nd mvt. - Assez vif 3. 3rd mvt. - Très lent 4. 4th mvt. - Vif et agité 5. Debussy Quartet - 1st mvt. - Animé et très décidé 6. 2nd mvt. - Assez vif et bien rythmé 7. 3rd mvt. - Andantino, doucement expressif 8. 4th mvt. - Très modéré - En animant peu à peu - Très mouvementé et avec passion

The Budapest Quartet:
Josef Roismann, 1st Violin
Alexander Schneider, 2nd Violin
Boris Kroyt, Viola
Mischa Schneider, Cello

SPOILER (Recording Info)

RAVEL Recorded 8th September 1940, Liederkranz Hall, New York Issued as Columbia 78s M-425 And on LP ; Columbia ML 4091 / ML 4668, Philips A 01606 R(10") Transfer and restoration from Philips LP by Andrew Rose LP kindly supplied from the collection of Jean-François Lambert DEBUSSY Recorded 10th-12th December 1940, Liederkranz Hall, New York Issued as Columbia 78s Columbia M 467 / LOX 545~48(England) And on LP ; Columbia ML 4018 / ML 4668 Transfer and restoration from ML 4668 by Dr. John Duffy Further restoration and XR remastering by Andrew Rose, April-May 2009 Budapest Quartet discographic information from Youngrok Lee's music page. Cover artwork based on a photograph of Josef Roismann Total duration: 54:11 ©2009 Pristine Audio A Pristine Audio Natural Sound XR restoration

more info here and samples here: http://www.pristineclassical.com/LargeWorks/Chamber/PACM065.php

SPOILER (back cover)

Review (audaud.com)

Recorded 8 September 1940 (Ravel) and 10-12 December 1940 (Debussy), this pairing of French masters by the illustrious Budapest String Quartet has existed in every recorded medium: as 78 rpms; as a Columbia LP (ML 4668); and now, as a CD incarnation remastered by Andrew Rose. The hard, abrasive sound patina of the "Americanized" version of the Budapest Quartet functions to secure a driven, sculpted version of the Ravel F Major Quartet, which insists on clear, pointed lines, even as the melodic flow likes to melt the distinctive colors and timbres into each other. The other-worldly quality of the Assez vif second movement suggests various sorts of oriental possibilities, with Mischa Schneider’s cello beating out a ferocious tattoo over which his colleagues pluck their strings with ringing ferocity. Then the instruments slide and glide into a liquefied world, a Dali-esque vision of Freudian time. The first and third movements each communicates a modal intimacy, a slightly askew reality directed by geometrically strict lines, perhaps a musical equivalent of Mondrian or Chirico. The Tres lent third movement possesses a shimmering touch of Gauguin as well, dramatic gestures buried in plantain leaves. The last movement, Vif et anime, blisters the ear with its feverish, hectic urgency, its relentless pace and jarring interruptions against the downbeat. The opening motif from the first movement undergoes perpetual transformation, Liszt taken into the subjective, rarified world of chamber music, wonderfully fleshed out in this scintillating rendition.

Debussy’s only (official) string quartet, his only numbered opus, occupies a special place in virtually every musician‘s ethos: my old teacher, Jean Casadesus, insisted that its Andantino third movement accompany his funeral. The Budapest again bring a hard, bright patina to this music, establishing a model, perhaps, for their equally driven colleagues of Quartetto Italiano. Roisman’s leading violin and Kroyt’s active viola dominate the first movement, with Schneider’s deep-intoned cello ever-present underneath a mosaic of twisting, Byzantine weavings of melodic tissue. The entire corpus of sound softens magically in the last pages, rife with Wagnerian possibilities. The second movement must have been in Bartok’s mind every day of his life, along with late Beethoven quartets. Half serenade and half grotesquerie, the movement swirls with dash and hothouse vigor. The heart of the quartet, aforementioned Andantino, doucement expressif, floats in a pool of rarified light, cool, distant as a star in Alpha Centauri. The sweet viola melody evokes hints of the English countryside; we might think Vaughan Williams penned it. The texture thins out in diatonic waves and ripples, the cello to the fore, then becomes more chromatic, inflamed in the manner of Debussy’s favorite artist, Turner. Receding once more into a folk idiom, the music accedes to fate, an element of modal plainchant settling over the emotional landscape. The last movement embodies three distinct tempo changes, moving from relative, dreamy stasis to polyphonic agitation and Gothic chiaroscuro in the manner of Faure. The music then weaves, elastically, to a new plane of experience, an apotheosis of burnt flesh and wild imaginings. Cyclically, we return to our primordial beginnings renewed, for our frail barque has crossed waters of which Baudelaire dreamed of with impunity.

--Gary Lemco

Спасибо, Юра!

У них на сайте предлагается кроме всего прочего два варианта этого альбома в 44.1/16


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Интересно, в чем разница...

update: разобрался..последний вариант - это их новый проект, старые записи ремастированы в стерео..вот только из описания непонятно, какой вариант представлен у нас - моно или стерео...

This post has been edited by satori on 02-10-2009, 10:20

satori
Судя по спектрам - стерео
Вчера послушал еще разок - очень и очень неплохо на мой вкус

Народ, имеет ли смысл еще выложить? Скачало 20 человек, но все молчат

Спасибо большое!
Очень понравилось. Послушаю еще на стационаре качество звука, а так - здорово.

Юра ,а такие не попадались REFERENCE HRX интересно послушать
цена правда не радует

QUOTE (Pr3ss @ 03-10-2009, 10:20)

Юра ,а такие не попадались REFERENCE HRX интересно послушать цена правда не радует

Неа.. Я бы и от таких тоже не отказался, но цена такая же за DVD-R

Ссылка для мула 51 clicks, если что.

browny спасибо, добавил