Borodin: Quartet No. 2 / Smetana: Quartet No. 1 "From My Life"

Amazon.com Playing on the matched set of Paganini Strads form the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Cleveland Quartet shows that Americans can do the music proudly, too. Their reading is well-paced and thoughtfully phrased, and while their sound is lighter than that of the Borodin ensemble, it is handsomely captured in Telarc's 1988 recording. Smetana's E Minor Quartet (From My Life) makes for a desirable coupling. --Ted Libbey Product description Borodin: Quartet No. 2; Smetana: Quartet No. 1, "From My Life" - The Cleveland Quartet / Telarc Audio CD 1989 / CD-80178 UPC 089408017827 /// The Cleveland Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1969 by violinist Donald Weilerstein, at the time an instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Music, whose director Victor Babin had secured funding for an in-resident quartet (the institute's first) to be headed by Weilerstein. Weilerstein formed the group that summer at the Marlboro Music School and Festival with violinist Peter Salaff, violist Martha Strongin Katz, and cellist Paul Katz. The group was initially called the "New Cleveland Quartet." In 1971, the group left the Cleveland Institute because of disagreements over teaching loads and took up residency at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; they dropped the word "New" from their name at this time. In 1976, the quartet made their final change of residency and moved to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. The quartet had three personnel changes: violist Atar Arad replaced Strongin Katz in 1980; violist James Dunham then replaced Arad in 1987; and William Preucil replaced Weilerstein as first violin in 1989. The quartet disbanded in 1995. Preucil became concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, a position he held until 2018, when he was fired for sexual misconduct. Paul Katz, Martha Strongin Katz and Donald Weilerstein are on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Weilerstein performs in a trio with his wife Vivian Hornik Weilerstein and his daughter, cellist Alisa Weilerstein; Peter Salaff was on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music through the summer of 2018; Atar Arad teaches at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University; and James Dunham teaches at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. The quartet recorded prodigiously for RCA Red Seal and the Cleveland-based Telarc label. /// Label: Telarc – CD-80178 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 1989 Genre: Classical Style: Romantic /// Tracklist: Quartet No. 2 In D Major 1 I. Allegro Moderato 8:16 2 II. Scherzo 4:43 3 III. Notturno 8:02 4 IV. Finale 7:26 Quartet No. 1 In E Minor, "From My Life" 5 I. Allegro Vivo Appassionato 7:30 6 II. Allegro Moderato A La Polka 5:23 7 III. Largo Sostenuto 8:53 8 IV. Vivace 5:52 Art Direction – Ray Kirschensteiner Cello – Paul Katz (2) Composed By – Alexander Borodin (tracks: 1 to 4), Bedřich Smetana (tracks: 5 to 8) Cover – Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Inc. Edited By – E. Amelia Rogers Engineer – Jack Renner Ensemble – The Cleveland Quartet Executive-Producer – Robert Woods (2) Liner Notes – David Loebel Producer – Elizabeth Ostrow Producer [Assistance] – Elaine Martone Technician [Technical Assistance] – Henk Kooistra Viola – James Dunham Violin – Donald Weilerstein, Peter Salaff
ASIN: B000003CV4
VSKU: DBV.B000003CV4.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Alexander Borodin|Cleveland Quartet|Bedrich Smetana
Binding: Audio cd
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