{"product_id":"london-string-quartet-columbia-electrics-volume-1-1925-28-pacm127","title":"LONDON STRING QUARTET Columbia Electrics, Volume 1 (1925-28) - PACM127","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\"Death and the Maiden\" Quartet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\"Trout\" Quintet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quintet in C\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eQuartettsatz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRIDGE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eThree Idylls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRIDGE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eAn Irish Melody\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1925-28\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 19:46\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eTHE LONDON STRING QUARTET\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJames Levey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e1925 recordings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e) or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJohn Pennington\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;\"\u003eThomas W. Petre\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;\"\u003eHarry Waldo Warner\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;\"\u003eCharles Warwick Evans\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (cello)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM127.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fThe London String Quartet was organized in 1908 by violist H. Waldo Warner and cellist C. Warwick Evans, then first desk players in two of London’s orchestras.  They chose Thomas W. Petre as second violinist, and Albert Sammons, at the time just beginning a career as a soloist, to the first violin chair.   The group rehearsed four times a week for nearly two years honing their ensemble before first performing in public as the New Quartet, changing its name the following year.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the Budapest Quartet would later do, and in contrast with ensembles dominated by a single famous virtuoso, the group took an egalitarian approach.  As Warner recalled in 1922, “From the beginning, we have always held that there should be no ‘boss’ in the Quartet.  We have always been on equal footing.  If anyone disagrees with a tempo here or a phrasing there he speaks out.  The point is discussed, and the decision made, if necessary, by voting.”  Over the next few years, the LSQ distinguished themselves in the UK, playing the works of both standard repertoire composers as well as new music, including Schoenberg’s \u003ci\u003eVerklärte Nacht\u003c\/i\u003e, whose British première was given by the group in 1914, and works dedicated to them by Vaughan Williams and Ethel Smyth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe coming of the Great War led to the departures of Petre (temporarily, for active duty) and Sammons (permanently, ultimately to pursue a solo career).  James Levey, a Ferdinand Hill pupil, was invited to fill the leader’s position, where he stayed for the next decade.  During the 1920s, the group expanded their touring schedule to include regular appearances in North and South America as well as other European capitals.  Levey left at the end of the 1926-27 season, and William Primrose, then performing as a violinist, put himself forth as a candidate for his replacement.  His time to join the group would eventually come (in 1930, as a violist); but the leader position now went to John Pennington, a protégé of Sir Dan Godfrey who had previously led his own quartet, and who would stay for the remainder of the ensemble’s existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe recordings presented in this first volume focus on this transitional period, with the last made by the Levey-led ensemble (all of the group’s 1925 electrics) bookending several 1927-28 tracks featuring Pennington.  While the group was shut out of English Columbia’s Beethoven Centenary releases of 1927 in favor of the Léner Quartet (which recorded a complete Beethoven quartet cycle, available on Pristine), they were approached to record several works for the Schubert Centenary of 1928, including the Quartettsatz, the “Trout” Quintet and the Cello Quintet.  Due to their touring schedule, the latter two were recorded in American Columbia’s New York studios.  The accompanying players on these were Irish-born pianist Ethel Hobday, American bassist Robert Cherwin and Belgian-born, Paris-trained cellist Horace Britt, at the time a member of the Elman Quartet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe London’s approach was similar to other groups of the period like the Léners, the early Budapest Quartet and the Flonzaley Quartet (with which they were frequently compared, particularly in their American appearances), with flexible tempi and frequent, though not overdone, use of string portamenti.  While their intonation and ensemble playing was occasionally not up to the virtuoso standards that later developed under such groups as the 1930s iteration of the Budapest Quartet, their warm, old-world ambiance in the standard repertoire, as well as their passionate advocacy of new music (played with such intensity in the two Bridge works) make their performances still worth hearing a century after they were recorded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sources for the present transfers were prewar American Columbia copies, primarily “Viva-Tonal” pressings, except for the “Londonderry Air”, which was only issued on English Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_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\u003eLONDON STRING QUARTET\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia Electrics, Volume 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCD 1 (67:02)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D.810 “Death and the Maiden”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1    1st Mvt.:  Allegro (11:45)\u003cbr\u003e2    2nd Mvt.: Andante con moto (8:54)\u003cbr\u003e3    3rd Mvt.:  Scherzo: Allegro molto (3:27)\u003cbr\u003e4    4th Mvt.:  Presto (8:38)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 20 November and 24 December 1925 in the Columbia Petty France Studios, London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eMatrix nos.:  WAX 1152-2, 1153-2, 1154-2, 1227-1, 1228-1, 1155-1, 1229-2, 1230-2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eFirst issued on Columbia (UK) L 1751\/4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePiano Quintet in A major, D.667 “Trout” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5    1st Mvt.:  Allegro vivace (9:07)\u003cbr\u003e6    2nd Mvt.: Andante (7:01)\u003cbr\u003e7    3rd Mvt.:  Scherzo: Presto (3:42)\u003cbr\u003e8    4th Mvt.:  Andantino – Allegretto (7:12)\u003cbr\u003e9    5th Mvt.:  Allegro giusto (7:11)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEthel Hobday\u003c\/b\u003e (piano) · \u003cb\u003eRobert Cherwin\u003c\/b\u003e (double bass)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 9 – 11 January 1928 in the Columbia Studios, New York City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eMatrix nos.:  W 98432-2, 98433-3, 98434-2, 98437-2, 98438-1, 98439-1, 98443-3, 98444-1 \u0026amp; 98445-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eFirst issued on Columbia (USA) 67401\/5-D in Set 84\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCD 2  (72:44)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1  \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D.703, “Quartettsatz” \u003c\/span\u003e(7:56)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 4 November 1927 in the Columbia Petty France Studios, London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eMatrix nos.:  WAX 3048-6 \u0026amp; 3049-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan 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