Mozart - String quartet K.428 - Amadeus SQ 1951

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String quartet K.428
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante con moto
III. Menuetto. Allegro
IV. Allegro vivace
Amadeus String Quartet (Norbert Brainin - Siegmund Nissel - Peter Schidlof - Martin Lovett)
Studio recording, London, I.1951

[@joseluizfrancis-cresciment6747]

Morzat + String Quartet + Amadeus = Heaven it is on Earth!

[@notaire2]

Lebhafte Interpretation dieses perfekt komponierten Streichquartetts im inspirierenden Tempo mit gut phrasierten Töne aller Instrumente. Die intime und perfekt synchronisierte Zusammenwirkung zwischen den vier Virtuosen war echt unvergleichlich in den fünfziger Jahre. Einfach atemberaubend!

[@_PROCLUS]

I. Allegro non troppo 0:00
II. Andante con moto 7:10
III. Menuetto. Allegro 14:30
IV. Allegro vivace 21:25

[@MrGer2295]

Beautiful! Thank you for posting! :)

[@robinmiller9865]

Gloriously elegant ensemble. The last surviving member, cellist Martin Lovett, taken last year by the accursed Covid.

[@Allanfearn]

That makes better sense, though why it sounds like stereo is still a mystery. Anyway, it's getting attention. So it should.

[@Schlagerbeat]

Could this maybe be the studio recording from them on DGG from 1966?

[@Allanfearn]

I might be the first viewer of this post, and you are going to have to forgive me, but is 1951 really the date of this performance? Apart from the marked tendency of the first violin to inhabit the left hand speaker, this doesn't sound like a 1951 LP recording, least of all EMI. I well remember their 78s of K387 from slightly earlier, and they didn't sound like this Is it perhaps rather a radio source from a German station's archives? The photograph certainly suggests thirty years later. I remember hearing them play this quartet in oxford in about 1955 or 1956, when their tuning - which was always rather experimental, was all over the place and the slow movement was painful to hear. On this occasion they sound on their best behaviour.

[@incontrariomotu]

I'm sure of the date and place of this recording. At this time EMI was doing a lot of experiments with new recording systems and it can happen that the sound is a bit weird. I also have the Berlin radio recording, and the sound is rather different.
I had no earlier photo, so I used this one.

[@incontrariomotu]

And I made a mistake : the original recording has been made by Westminster and not EMI as mentioned above.