On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 9:33:07 PM UTC, Frank Berger wrote:
> On 12/19/2021 3:47 PM, Bob Harper wrote:
> > On 12/18/21 8:26 PM, Sol L. Siegel wrote:
> >> Alex Brown <ad...@adjb.net> wrote in
> >> news:hr2dnZB60LtGAyH8...@giganews.com:
> >>
> >>> On 2021-12-17 12:25, Mandryka wrote:
> >>>> 7 adagios. Who makes it come alive?
> >>>
> >>> A performance which makes it "come alive" has failed ;-)
> >>>
> >>> DSCH said "Play the first movement so that flies drop dead in mid-air
> >>> and the audience leaves the hall out of sheer boredom."
> >>
> >> There's a cruel irony to that anecdote. During the process of rehearsing
> >> for the premiere, Sergei Shirinsky, the founding cellist of the Beethoven
> >> Quartet, suffered a heart attack while waiting for a bus and died. The
> >> premiere went to the Tanayev Quartet instead.
> >>>
> >>> I like the Keller Quartet on ECM.
> >>
> >> The Danish Quartet, also on ECM, has the measure of it. My other
> >> favorites, the early Fitzwilliam and yes, the Beethovens, are also
> >> up there - but the former can only be had in the complete set -
> >> still worth having - and an individual disc of the latter, which
> >> has been issued on Melodiya and Consonance, is all but unobtainable.
> >> It can, however, be downloaded. (Beware that Praga disc, which claims
> >> to be a live performance - it's the studio recording, presented in mono!)
> >>
> >> - Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA
> >>
> > Is anything on Praga what it says it is other than the recordings by the Prazak Quartet? I exaggerate, of course, but there's been a lot of fishy stuff on that label.
> >
> > Bob Harper
> >
> Some known Praga errors (sorry for the formatting): Claimed Actual
>
> 250394 Beethoven Sym 5 Karajan Berlin PO Nov-61 11/14/1962
>
> 250048 Grieg PC (Richter) Kondra shin Moscow PO 1977 1964
>
> 250053 Shostakovich Sym 10 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1955 3/3/1976
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> 250090 Shostakovich Sym 4 Rozhdestvensky USSR Ministry of Culture SO misattributed as live in Prague
> Shostakovich Two Pieces from Scarlatti Rozhdestvensky Wind Sections of the USSR State SO 1981 1979
> for Wind Orchestra
>
> 254017 Shostakovich Sym 6 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1955 1972
> Shostakovich Sym 12 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1962 1961
>
> 256016 Shostakovich Sym 5 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1967 1978
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> 256017 Shostakovich Sym 6 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1955 1972
> 256017 Shostakovich Sym 12 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1962 1961
>
> 256018 Shostakovich Sym 11 Mravinsky Leningrad PO 1967 1959
>
> 350054 Prokofiev PC#2 (Zak) Sanderling (Kurt) USSR Large SO 1951 1959

Anyone heard the Schoenberg Quartet’s recording? I’m tempted because I like everything I’ve heard from them, but it’s expensive so please say if you know it or know a cheap source for it!