{"product_id":"lener-quartet-debussy-ravel-franck-1923-33-pacm116","title":"LÉNER QUARTET Debussy, Ravel \u0026 Franck (1923-33) - PACM116","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDEBUSSY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eRAVEL \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eFRANCK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePiano Quintet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1923-33\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 63:35   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLéner String Quartet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJenő Léner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (violin I)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJosef Smilovits\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (violin II)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSándor Róth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (viola)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eImre Hartman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (cello)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eOlga Loeser-Lebert \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e(piano)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM116.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n\nThe Léner Quartet were among several groups to arise from the Budapest\nOpera Orchestra after the Great War. All born in 1894-95, the players\nhad a particularly uniform style: three were pupils of Jenő Hubay and\nthe cellist was a Carl Popper disciple. Jenő Léner, the prodigy of\nHubay’s class, had played in the first violins of the Budapest\nPhilharmonic at 11; József Smilovits had won the Reményi Prize; Sándor\nRóth had appeared as a soloist and was already teaching at the Academy;\nand Imre Hartman, who had won the Popper Prize, anchored the group with\nfirm rhythm and a tone of depth and penetration. Their ensemble was Leó\nWeiner’s first success as a chamber music .\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe 1918 revolution was their cue to leave the orchestra and retire to the\ncountry with a trunkful of scores, to work on repertoire. In 1919 they made\ntheir Budapest début and in 1920 gave a Vienna recital attended by\nprominent musicians including Ravel. He coached them and urged them to play\nin Paris, which they did the next autumn, causing a sensation. In 1922 they\ntoured Italy and played six times at Wigmore Hall, London. Their pianist\nwas Florence-based Olga Loeser-Lebert, pupil of Max Pauer, grand-daughter\nof composer and teacher Sigmund Lebert and widow of art critic Charles\nLoeser. She hosted their rehearsal stints at her lavish villa.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nLondon became a home from home for the Léners: they were quickly snapped up\nby the Columbia Graphophone Company Limited, who had developed a new\nshellac compound, marketing their products as ‘Columbia New Process Records\n- the ONLY Records without Scratch’. From 13 November 1922 the Léners were\nfixtures in the Columbia studios, although some early electrics were made\nat Wigmore Hall. The group’s records did so well that in 1935 they were\npresented with a Gold Disc.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nForays to North America in 1929-31 were successful artistically but not\nfinancially, so the Léners consolidated their European career. They\nespecially liked to present series of recitals illustrating the development\nof the string quartet. The outbreak of war in 1939 found them touring South\nAmerica and in 1941 three of them decided to settle in Mexico City. Jenő\nLéner, however, was set on continuing and, to the others’ dismay, abandoned\nthem. By 1942 he was in New York with new colleagues, but this ensemble was\nplagued by personnel changes. After the war he returned to Europe,\ninsisting on hiring Weiner pupils to keep the style consistent. In 1948 the\ngroup visited South America for three months, giving Beethoven cycles in\nBuenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and São Paolo. However, Léner’s death from\ncancer in New York on 4 November brought an end to an illustrious ensemble.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIn their heyday the Léners’ wide vibrato and lavish portamenti did not\nraise eyebrows, even in Franco-Belgian music. The acoustic Franck \u003cem\u003eLento\u003c\/em\u003e, perhaps their least-known disc, allows us to hear them with\nLoeser-Lebert. Debussy never met them but he would surely have appreciated\nhow they keep his faster movements up to tempo; and we know that Ravel\ncoached them assiduously in his Quartet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTULLY POTTER\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLÉNER QUARTET\u003c\/b\u003e Debussy, Ravel \u0026amp; Franck\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANCK \u003c\/b\u003ePiano Quintet in F minor (1879)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 2nd Mvt. - Lento con molto sentimento  (8:33)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlga Loeser-Lebert\u003c\/b\u003e (piano)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 8 November 1923 in the Clerkenwell Road Studios, London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eMatrix nos.:  AX 219-1 \u0026amp; 220-4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eFirst issued as Columbia L 1620\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDEBUSSY \u003c\/b\u003eString Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (1893)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. 1st Mvt. - Animé et très décidé  (7:03)\u003cbr\u003e3. 2nd Mvt. - Assez vif bien rythmé  (3:58)\u003cbr\u003e4. 3rd Mvt. - Andantino, doucement expressif  (7:31)\u003cbr\u003e5. 4th Mvt. - Très modéré  (7:51)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 15 March 1928 in London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eMatrix nos.:  WAX 3378-2, 3379-1, 3380-1, 3381-2, 3382-1, 3383-1 \u0026amp; 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