Thursday, October 13, 2016

Mozart: Quintet in D, K. 593 (Budapest Quartet & Katims)

The Budapest Quartet with Milton Katims
This past spring, I uploaded a Mozart string quintet recording (C major, K. 515) by the Budapest String Quartet with their frequent collaborator, Milton Katims, as the second violist. At the same time as I acquired that set, I also obtained the one I present today; however, the other set gave me an excuse to add a nice Steinweiss cover to my online gallery, whereas this one's cover is generic. Moreover, I think this recording was slightly more widely circulated than the K. 515 one was. Be that as it may, I see no reason to withhold this transfer any longer:

Mozart: String Quintet in D Major, K. 593
The Budapest String Quartet (Roisman-Ortenberg-Kroyt-Schneider)
with Milton Katims, second viola
Recorded December 12-13, 1946
Columbia Masterworks set MM-708, three 78-rpm records
Link (FLAC files, 64.49 MB)
Link (MP3 files, 42.88 MB)

I hadn't meant to be inactive quite so long - two weeks! But shortly after posting my last post, I stumbled across the Internet Archive's making available of the complete run of the Phonograph Monthly Review magazine from 1926 to 1932, and this has lured me away from other record-related pursuits fairly consistently since. PMR is one of those publications I've heard about but have never been able to read until now, and it chronicles a very exciting time in American recording history, the beginnings of the push to create a library of symphonic and chamber music masterworks in recorded form. As such, it fulfilled the same function that "The Gramophone" magazine did in England starting three years earlier. The latter magazine is still with us, of course, but PMR, alas, fell victim to the Great Depression.

7 comments:

  1. Alternate links:

    FLAC:
    http://www.mediafire.com/file/c2avyd8mcp8zvhn/Budapest_SQ_-_Mozart_K593_FLACs.zip

    MP3:
    http://www.mediafire.com/file/n8fo8y3y3fykd5l/Budapest_SQ_-_Mozart_K593_MP3s.zip

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  3. Many thanks, as ever! And welcome to the PMR Addicts Club - totally with you: it's as fascinating as Gramo if not more so, and feels all the more precious for its short, precarious and precocious life. All the best, Nick

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  4. beautiful. thank you.
    and thank you for using mediafire

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  5. A very committed and rare performance. Thanks so much for this post dear Bryan.

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  6. Much appreciated! Also thank you for the links to the Phonograph Monthly Review (in exceptionally high resolution pdfs no less!)
    Herb

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  7. What delight . . . thank you! And I much appreciate the immaculate documentation.

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