Search - Bartok, The Vegh Quartet, Sandor Vegh; Sandor Zoldy; Georges Janzer; Paul Szabo :: Béla Bartók: Complete String Quartets (The 1954 Mono Cycle)

Milestone recordings!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 12/27/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

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The music of Bartok (1881-1945) is original, exciting, mysterious. Around his music nothing is superfluous, incidental, emotional; everything is sturdy, supported by a forceful energy. The process of link of each phrase or section seems to be product of an organic approach.



For many listeners Bartok `s String Quartets is an enormous wasteland. Like Shstakovich, Bartok opens his soul in this genre because there is major creative liberty and universes to explore.



This 1954cycle was released on commercially under Angel label in the U.S. and the French Columbia on three LPs But thanks to Music& Arts efforts the rescue of this important historical document has been possible.



It is always worthy to remark the presence of the exhaustive energy of Sandor Vegh, an exceptional music who surmounted the conventional barriers of the musical interpretation to get into in the great luminaries and established several landmark recordings as member of the Hungarian, Vegh quartet and finally as conductor of the Salzburg Mozarteum's Camerata Academica (from 1978 to 1997).



To classify the artistic quality and the performance level of these recordings would be simply unsurpassable, not only by the performances by themselves but the idiomatic expression, the ethos and gestalt which were played.



Since I got this double album, it's my favorite choice at the moment to enjoy and travel by this universe.





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