Violin Recital: Kolisch, Rudolf - SCHUBERT, F. / BARTOK, B.

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Music and Arts Programs of America
Release Date
May 1, 2003
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BARTOK BERG SCHOENBERG SCHU
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Kolisch Quartet, Pro Arte Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Gifford, Hoss, Johansen, Kolisch, Sharrow, Simon, Zentrick, Wisco
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 01, 2003
    • UPC
      017685105623
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      MA CD-1056
    • LABEL
      Music and Arts Programs of America
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      6
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    2. I. Massig

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Clemence Gifford

    3. II. Sehr rasch

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Clemence Gifford

    4. III. Litanei

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Clemence Gifford

    5. IV. Entruckung

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Clemence Gifford

    6. Spoken Comment (Schoenberg)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Clemence Gifford

    7. I. Moderato

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    8. II. Adagio

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    9. III. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    10. IV. Rondo: Molto moderato

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    11. Spoken Comment (Schoenberg)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    12. I. Allegro molto energico

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    13. II. Comodo

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    14. III. Largo

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    15. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

    16. I. Moderato

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    17. II. Adagio

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    18. III. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    19. IV. Rondo: Molto moderato

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    20. I. Allegretto giovale

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    21. II. Andante amoroso

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    22. III. Allegro misterioso - Trio estatico

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    23. IV. Adagio appassionato

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    24. V. Presto delirando - Tenebroso

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    25. VI. Largo desolato

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    26. I. Poco allegro

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Wisconsin Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch

      Conductor: René Leibowitz

    27. II. Andante grazioso

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Wisconsin Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch

      Conductor: René Leibowitz

    28. III. Finale: Allegro

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Wisconsin Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch

      Conductor: René Leibowitz

    29. Kolisch Interview

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Wisconsin Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch

      Conductor: René Leibowitz

    30. I. Tempo di ciaccona

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch

    31. II. Fuga

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch

    32. III. Melodia

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch

    33. IV. Presto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch

    34. I. Allegro

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    35. II. Adagio molto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    36. III. Scherzo. Alla bulgarese (Vivace)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    37. IV. Andante

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    38. V. Finale: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    39. Phantasy, Op. 47

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Performer: Rudolf Kolisch, Gunnar Johansen

    40. I. Allegro molto

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    41. II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    42. III. Andante con moto

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    43. IV. Allegro - Presto

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    44. I. Heftig bewegt

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    45. II. Sehr langsam

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    46. III. Sehr bewegt

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    47. IV. Sehr langsam

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    48. V. In zarter Bewegung

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    49. No. 1. Massig

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    50. No. 2. Leicht bewegt

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    51. No. 3. Ziemlich fliessend

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    52. No. 4. Sehr langsam

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    53. No. 5. Ausserst langsam

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    54. No. 6. Fliessend

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Quartet

    55. I. Adagio - Allegro

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Eric Simon, Wendell Hoss, Leonard Sharrow, Anthony Zentrick

    56. II. Adagio

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Eric Simon, Wendell Hoss, Leonard Sharrow, Anthony Zentrick

    57. III. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Eric Simon, Wendell Hoss, Leonard Sharrow, Anthony Zentrick

    58. IV. Andante

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Eric Simon, Wendell Hoss, Leonard Sharrow, Anthony Zentrick

    59. V. Menuetto: Allegretto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Eric Simon, Leonard Sharrow, Wendell Hoss, Anthony Zentrick

    60. VI. Andante molto - Allegro

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Kolisch Quartet

      Performer: Eric Simon, Wendell Hoss, Leonard Sharrow, Anthony Zentrick


In Honor of Rudolf Kolisch (1896-1978) is Music & Arts' six-disc tribute to a key figure in twentieth century music whose name is invoked in a number of historic contexts, yet whose actual recorded work remains almost unknown. Rudolf Kolisch was the leader of the Kolisch String Quartet, the "house band" at Arnold Schoenberg's ISCM conferences in the 1920s and a group that formed the first line of defense in the avant-garde musical movements in Europe before the rise of Nazi Germany. As the Kolisch also recorded a fair amount of standard quartet literature, this set is limited mainly to this and Kolisch's other groups' recordings of the Second Vienna School and Bart k, although the Kolisch Quartet recording of the Schubert Octet in F, performed with additional guest players, from the Library of Congress in 1940 is included as a bonus. The program opens with an extraordinary and audacious series of private recordings, made on a United Artists soundstage in Hollywood under the aegis of Alfred Newman, of all four of Schoenberg's string quartets dating from late 1936 and early 1937. The Fourth Quartet hadn't even premiered yet - this would occur the day after recording, on January 8, 1937, at UCLA. from this same session are included some of Schoenberg's spoken comments, in which he offers thanks to Newman and United Artists, and even addresses the "friends" of his music that belong to the future, presumably not yet born. These recordings have been issued a number of times, despite their "p-r-r-rivate" (pace Schoenberg) provenance, and unfortunately little can be done to rescue them from their noisy and somewhat dim audio perspective. They have never been dealt with, in a sonic sense, with more proficiency than here. From an interpretive standpoint, this Kolisch performance of the String Quartet No. 1 in D minor remains one of the best made, simply because the group has a thorough understanding of the Viennese milieu in which the quartet was conceived and does not try to make it sound more "modern" than it is. from there we jump ahead to 1950 and the Pro Arte Quartet of the University of Wisconsin, a pre-existing group that Kolisch took over in 1945 and retrofitted for performances of contemporary quartet literature. We get a second shot at the Third Schoenberg quartet with this group, and the performance is tighter and even more intense than that with the Kolisch Quartet, not to mention heard in excellent mono sound taken from a Dial LP. for some reason the sonic perspective is a little more cramped in Berg's Lyric Suite and some of the other Dials, but it is still astonishing to realize that in hearing the Berg you are listening to a performance led by the same person who premiered this now standard work at a 1927 ISCM Festival. The tempi observed here are faster than in most performances - indeed, the pace of the Allegro misterioso is downright dizzying. The three discs that follow are an embarrassment of riches: Kolisch heard in a rare context as soloist, playing the Schoenberg concerto at the University of Wisconsin, the Bart k Sonata for solo violin, and Schoenberg's Fantasy, Op. 47, with his colleague Gunnar Johansen. With the Pro Arte Quartet, further Dial recordings are heard - the Webern Opp. 5 and 9, Schoenberg's early String Quartet in D of 1897, and Bart k's Fifth Quartet Apart from the purely historical value of the recordings, and their highly variable sound quality, what is Kolisch like? In his time, all of this music was unfamiliar, and in the twenty-first century nearly all of it is familiar - in a sense some of it has reached a point of perfection that approaches fossilization. Kolisch certainly isn't looking to make his Schoenberg or Bart k warm and cozy, and he doesn't have a problem dealing with it as "difficult" music; after hearing his Bart K Sonata for solo violin, some might wonder if Kolisch is not making it a bit more diff.