{"product_id":"lener-quartet-dvorak-smetana-string-quartets-dvorak-brahms-piano-quintets-1926-38-pacm122","title":"LÉNER QUARTET Dvořák \u0026 Smetana String Quartets - Dvořák \u0026 Brahms Piano Quintets (1926-38) - PACM122","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDVOŘÁK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet No. 10\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDVOŘÁK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet No. 12\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDVOŘÁK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePiano Quintet No. 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePiano Quintet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSMETANA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet No. 1, 'In My Life', 3rd mvt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1926-1938\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 12:47\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\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\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM122.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\nmade their Budapest début and in 1920 gave a Vienna recital attended by\nprominent musicians including Ravel. He coached them and urged them to\nplay in Paris, which they did the next autumn, causing a sensation. In 1922\nthey toured Italy and played six times at Wigmore Hall, London.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nTheir pianist, on almost every occasion in their career, was Florence-based\nOlga Loeser-Lebert (1887–1942, née Lebert Kaufmann), pupil of Max Pauer,\ngrand-daughter of the composer and teacher Sigmund Lebert and wife since\n1914 of the American art critic and collector Charles A. Loeser. The\nLéners were regularly able to stay and rehearse at the Loesers’ home, the\nVilla Torri Gattaia, and the couple’s friends were often invited to hear\nthem play. ‘Carlo’ Loeser bought a Stradivari violin for Jenő Lener and\nsubsidised the quartet in other ways. Even after his death in 1928, Olga\nLoeser-Lebert kept up her close friendship and working relationship with the\nquartet.\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\nwere fixtures in the Columbia studios, although some early electrics were\nmade at Wigmore Hall. The group’s records did so well that in 1935 they\nwere presented 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\nSouth America and in 1941 three of them decided to settle in Mexico City.\nJenő Léner, however, was set on continuing and, to the others’ dismay,\nabandoned them. By 1942 he was in New York with new colleagues, but this\nensemble was plagued by personnel changes. After the war he returned to\nEurope, insisting on hiring Weiner pupils to keep the style consistent. In\n1948 the group visited South America for three months, giving Beethoven\ncycles in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and São Paolo. However, Léner’s\ndeath from cancer in New York on 4 November brought an end to an\nillustrious ensemble. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTully Potter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\nOlga Loeser-Lebert made only four commercial recordings, all with the\n\nLéner Quartet. This release brings together two of them. (The others\nwere the \u003cem\u003eLento\u003c\/em\u003e from the Franck Quintet, on Pristine PACM 116, and\nthe Schumann Quintet, to be released in an upcoming volume.) The Smetana\nmovement and (oddly) the Dvořák\n“American” Quartet were never released in the USA. The Smetana only\nstayed in the catalog until 1930, and was so little known that it was not\neven mentioned in WERM. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\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\n\u003cstrong\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLÉNER QUARTET \u003c\/b\u003eDvořák \u0026amp; 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