recordings of GG's quartet

[Bradley P Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

Paige Poe wrote:

>I also hate the fact that it's not on the soundtrack. The recording that
>I have of it--the only one that I know of, actually, though I hope there
>are more--just doesn't seem as good, for some reason, though I think it
>has the same performers: Bruno Monsaingeon and the others.  I wrote a
>letter to the Brodsky Quartet asking if they would please record Gould's
>string quartet. They never responded.

I prefer the first one by the Symphonia Quartet (members of the Cleveland
Orchestra, supervised by the 27-year-old GG) from 3/13/60.  That was
released on a Columbia LP back then, and reissued a few years ago on the
Sony CD 52679.

If you like GG's quartet you might also like one of its closest role
models: Schoenberg's quartet #1.


Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA
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