Jeff Tedford wrote:
>My local record stores carry Vox Boxes featuring artists like
>Moravec, Horenstein, Walter Klein, Gregory Sandor, Abby Simon and other
>performers/performances that I am unfamiliar with. Do list members have
>any Vox Box recomendations?
Vox Box CD3X 3031. An excellent compilation of French chamber music on 3
CDs that includes:
RAVEL's SQ, Sonata for Violin & Piano (the first), and Piano Trio.
SAINT-SAENS's Piano Trio #1;
LALO's Piano Trio #1;
DEBUSSY's SQ;
FAURE's Piano Trio in d, op 120, and his SQ op 121; and
ROUSSEL's SQ.
Four groups play: one unnamed one for Faure's Piano Trio; the New
Hungarian Quartet (Ravel & Debussy's SQs); the Loewenguth 4tet (Faure's
& Roussel's), and the Caecilian Trio -- who do the Piano Trios by
Saint-Saens, Lalo and Ravel; 2 of its members also play Ravel's Sonata.
These last two chamber pieces are played exquisitely; the rest are not far
behind. I would have paid Can$21 (US$17?) for a CD of this version of the
last two pieces alone; seven more makes it an incredible bargain, even if
it is ADD.
Vox Box CDX 5071 "New World Composers from the Old World" The best
anthology of 20th Century String Quartets I know. The New World Quartet.
ADD again.
Includes SQs by STRAVISNKY (3 pces), HINDEMITH (#6), BLOCH (#3), KORNGOLD
(#2), TCHEREPNIN (#2), ROZSA (#1) and SURINACH (1975). If you have not yet
heard the last three composers, get ready for some amazing music.
Bert Bailey
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