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Eric Schissel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:21:08 -0500
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Does anyone know when BBC Third Programme broadcast a performance of the
following work:

Egon Wellesz string quartet no. 1 in c minor, in five movements, op. 14.

(or just "funf satze", or just "in C", or just op.  14, etc.) It was about
25 years ago, I think.  I would dearly like to hear it (I am working on
midis of some of its movements but would much prefer, for obvious reasons,
to visit their archives and request permission to hear the tape.  Knowing
when it was made and broadcast would help greatly.) The work itself was
published in 1913.

(While the midis are all incomplete- not for long I hope- if you are
interested in hearing them just ask me.  They do not have the quality
of his later work, I feel, even allowing for the horrible sound quality
imposed by midis themselves- none of the Romantic feeling or heart-stopping
emotional and craftsmanly force of his first two symphonies (works that
deserve recording on CD, and superb performance and recording at that) or
the assured serialism of symphonies 6-9, for instance, and not nearly the
stunning masterwork that is the cello solo sonata op.  30.  But still
pretty enjoyable and impressive, I think, all the same.)

-Eric Schissel

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