1926 BEETHOVEN String Quartet No 2 in G FLONZALEY Quartet ORG SOFT COVER ALBUM

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1927 Beethoven Centennial Memorial Edition of

Beethoven String Quartet No 2 in G Major

The first electrical recording  of a Beethoven Quartet Flonzaley Quartet.

Quartet no. 2 in G major  op. 18, no. 2,

Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) 

Flonzaley Quartet (Musical group) 
Iwan d'Archambeau (instrumentalist: cello) 
Nicolas Moldavan (instrumentalist: viola) 
Adolfo Betti (instrumentalist: violin) 
Alfred Pochon (instrumentalist: violin) 

This is the original pre-M Set  issue with soft covers

Although the set is still called M7 on the records, there is no M number on the Album

Original Orthophonic  recording in original soft cover  Album 4x 10" Victor Scoll 78 rpm records

Condition: EXCELLENT PRISTINE, plays very quiet. Album like new

A CHOICE COPY

The New York based Flonzaley quartet was a true recording pioneer of chamber music with the Victor company. Recording single movements as early as 1913, the Flonzaley w Gabrilowitsch recorded in 1923 the complete Schuman Quintette in E flat major.

The Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor was the first foray into chamber music using the new Western Electric recording system. Recorded just before Christmas - from Dec 21 - 23, 1925 (the first unissued takes of the Beethoven Quartet no. 2 in G major was recorded in between on 12/22/1925).

The recording history of the Quintet shows the difficulties of the new process: Originally started on Dec 22 1925, some sides were then  remade in September of 1927. None of these takes were satisfactory, and were not issued.

Share | Take Date and Place Take Status Label Name/Number Format Note Show Issued Only
12/22/1925 (Camden, New Jersey) 1 Hold   
12/22/1925 (Camden, New Jersey) 2 Destroy   
12/22/1925 (Camden, New Jersey) 3 Destroy   
2/9/1926 (Camden, New Jersey) 4 Destroy   
2/9/1926 (Camden, New Jersey) 5 Destroy   
2/10/1926 (Camden, New Jersey) 6 Destroy   
2/11/1926 (Camden, New Jersey) 7 Hold   
2/11/1926 (Camden, New Jersey) 8 Hold   
2/11/1926 (Camden, New Jersey) 9 Hold   
2/11/1926 (Camden, New Jersey) 10 Master Victor 1218

Only after almost a year of recording were these sides finally waxed in November of 1926

The Flonzaley Quartet was a string quartet organized in New York City in 1902, which was highly esteemed. The group disbanded in 1928.

Personnel

The original personnel of the group were as follows:
1st violin: Adolfo Betti
2nd violin: Alfred Pochon
viola: Ugo Ara (until 1917), replaced by Louis Bailly (until 1924), and by Félicien d'Archambeau.
violoncello: Iwan d'Archambeau
[edit]Origins

The Quartet was the deliberate creation of Éduard J. de Coppet of New York, who in 1902 engaged the original members to devote themselves entirely to quartet-playing, and not with any view to giving regular concerts in public. The group took its name from de Coppet's summer villa near Lausanne, in Switzerland, where the four musicians first rehearsed. After a long period of practice, the Quartet made a European tour and won high praise for the perfection of its ensemble and its artistic finish. Both violinists and the violist had been students of the Belgian maestro César Thomson. The group was first heard in New York, in private and at charity concerts, in autumn 1904, but it did not give a public concert in the USA until 5 December 1905. After that it appeared regularly in Europe and America. The members stuck to the original principle of not accepting any outside engagement, and having no pupils, and by devoting themselves entirely to the quartet maintained a position of acknowledged superiority in their field.
In 1914 the group asked Igor Stravinsky to write them a work. This resulted in his "Three pieces for String Quartet". A few years later they also commissioned him to write "Concertino", a one-movement work. Éduard de Coppet died in 1916, and his son André continued thereafter to maintain the Quartet. The original violist Ugo Ara left the group to join the Italian army, resulting in his replacement. The Quartet performed worldwide until disbanding in 1928 after a farewell tour that ended on April 14 in London. However, their recording of the Haydn 'Lark' quartet (below) could still be described as 'in prep.' in 1936.
[edit]Recordings

The Flonzaley recorded for Victor/His Master's Voice by both the acoustic horn and electric microphone methods. Among their recordings of longer works are the following:
Beethoven: Quartet Op 18 no 2 (V 1218-21/DA 851-854).
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat major op 127 (V 7629-33/DB 1377-81).
Beethoven: Quartet in F major op 135 (V 122-125/DA 847-850).
Brahms: Quintet in F minor op 34 with Harold Bauer, piano (V 6571-5/DB970-4).
Dohnányi: Quartet no 2 in D flat major op 15 (V 7354-6/DB 1135-7).
Haydn: Quartet in D major op 64 no 5 (V 7650-1).
Mozart: Quartet in D minor K 421 (V 7607-8/DB 1357-8).
Mozart: Quartet in D major K 575 (DA 947-9 ('V 1585-7' not issued?)).
Schubert: Quartet in G major op 161 (V 7475-8/DB 1373-6).
Schumann: Quintet in E flat major op 44 with Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano (V 8092-5/DB 1191-4).
Smetana: Quartet no 1 in E minor (V 7130-2/DB 1359-61).

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