1929 Lener String Quartet BRAHMS QUARTET in Bb Op 67 Columbia Set 132 78

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A series of great Violin, Piano and Orchestra records on rare labels, from 1902 Monarch to 1940 War Germany recordings.

The Lener STRING QUARTET in this great recording of

 BRAHMS QUARTET in B flat Op 67

The L?ner String Quartet, sometimes written the Lehner String Quartet, was a very famous musical ensemble of Hungarian origin, founded in Budapest in 1918, which for most of its pre-war career operated in or from London. The L?ner made the first complete recorded cycle of Beethoven quartets.Personnel
The original founding lineup of the Quartet, which lasted throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s, was as follows:

1st violin: Jeno Lener (or Lehner)
2nd viloin: Joszef Smilovits
viola: Sandor Roth
violoncello: Imre Hartmann

5x12" VIVA TONAL Columbia 78 rpm record w original album Set 132 and Booklet

Condition:

Excellent, pristine, basically unplayed. Album like new, small tape repair top of spine

1930 review in THe Gramophone

My readers are by now so well acquainted with the style of the Lener players that I need not say much about it in this work. There is the same richness of texture, the excess of vibrato (one longs for a steady note from the leader), the feeling, to me, of their slightly overdoing almost all the nuances. I am reminded, on a more distinguished plane, of the old style of choral si:,Iging, when "see how beautifully we can cres. and dim." was always in the mind. The start is marked p. I reckon the Lener tone above mp. On page 5 Brahms asks pp, and we only get p. All these levels are relative, of course, but one must also have some absolute standard of softness and loudness, and I wish these players would more often come really down to a p or pp. The Capet players might be described as plain and the Lener as coloured- --not penny and twopenny, though, for the Capet, at their best, are in a really high class. The Loner always appeal to me more in the concert room than on records. I fancy the disc shows up and perhaps magnifies their little tricks. That vibrato might easily be a bad example for young fiddlers, who so easily (like singers) copy their betters. I admit that it is, for the most part, very artistic vibrato, but there is no point in using it so continuously. That is merely a bad fiddling convention. In the lovely second movement the leader, always a bit of a soloist, gets a good chance to shine, and does so purely, apart from the wobble, which I feel is peculiarly unnecessary in Brahms generally, and in this movement in particular. The ensemble deserves high praise. The recording makes every stroke tell. The tone is a shade cutting for my taste. In the third movement the lightness of spirit, combined with the more intimate note later, is well caught—a wayward note, not over-pressed. In the final movement the players are at their happiest, differentiating the variations and setting them off with admirable distinction. Note that near the end of side nine the opening tune of the work is heard (p. 31, at Doppio moximento). Not quite my ideal players for the work, it will be gathered ; but a product that will please Brahmsians, and perfectly delight Lenerites. Those who wish to get separate movements will be justly grieved at having to buy two records for each of the middle two, when by a little adjustment of the sides these could quite well have been made available on one record apiece.

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