The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings Vol. 3: Mozart

marvellous and in amazing sound (as usual Audite has achieved astonishing results with the master tapes) … With an interesting note as well as superb remastering this is an exceptional Mozart... — International Record Review, December 2014 More…

Release Date: 28th Jul 2014
Catalogue No: AUDITE21427
Label: Audite
Series: The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

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Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K387 'Spring'

Work length27:10

$6.00

$7.80

Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 10 June 1950

I. Allegro vivace assai

Track length5:53

$1.00

$1.30

II. Menuetto: Allegro (Allegretto)

Track length8:35

$2.00

$2.60

III. Andante cantabile

Track length8:30

$2.00

$2.60

IV. Molto allegro

Track length4:12

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K421

Work length24:23

$5.00

$6.50

Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 09 May 1955

I. Allegro moderato

Track length5:53

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante

Track length5:18

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto: Allegretto

Track length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegretto ma non troppo - Piu allegro

Track length9:33

$2.00

$2.60

Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat, K428

Work length24:00

$4.00

$5.20

Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 30 October 1950

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length4:58

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante con moto

Track length6:50

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto: Allegro

Track length6:49

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro Vivace

Track length5:23

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: String Quartet No. 18 in A Major, K464 'Drum'

Work length32:57

$7.00

$9.05

Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 23 April 1951

I. Allegro

Track length7:29

$2.00

$2.60

II. Menuetto

Track length6:17

$1.00

$1.30

III. Andante

Track length13:40

$3.00

$3.85

IV. Allegro

Track length5:31

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K465 'Dissonance'

Work length25:46

$6.00

$7.80

Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 02 December 1953

I. Adagio - Allegro

Track length7:56

$2.00

$2.60

II. Andante cantabile

Track length7:23

$2.00

$2.60

III. Menuetto: Allegro

Track length4:53

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro molto

Track length5:34

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K575 'Prussian No. 1'

Work length19:57

$4.00

$5.20

Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 02 December 1953

I. Allegretto

Track length5:06

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante

Track length3:49

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto: Allegretto

Track length5:20

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegretto

Track length5:42

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B flat major, K589 'Prussian No. 2'

Work length20:45

$4.00

$5.20

Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 02 December 1953

I. Allegro

Track length4:34

$1.00

$1.30

II. Larghetto

Track length6:00

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto: Moderato

Track length6:17

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro assai

Track length3:54

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: String Quartet No. 23 in F Major, K590 'Prussian No. 3'

Work length22:00

$4.00

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Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 23 April 1951

I. Allegro moderato

Track length6:26

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante (Allegretto)

Track length6:34

$1.00

$1.30

III. Minuetto: Allegretto

Track length4:14

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$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length4:46

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$1.30

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

Work length28:48

$5.00

$6.50

Heinrich Geuser (clarinet)
Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 16 December 1952

I. Allegro

Track length6:14

$1.00

$1.30

II. Larghetto

Track length6:19

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto

Track length6:53

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegretto con variazioni

Track length9:22

$2.00

$2.60

Mozart: String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K515

Work length31:04

$7.00

$9.10

Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 19 September 1953

I. Allegro

Track length9:14

$2.00

$2.60

II. Menuetto: Allegretto

Track length5:33

$1.00

$1.30

III. Andante

Track length8:49

$2.00

$2.60

IV. Allegro

Track length7:28

$2.00

$2.60

Mozart: String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K516

Work length30:37

$8.00

$10.35

Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 19 September 1953

I. Allegro

Track length7:24

$2.00

$2.60

II. Menuetto

Track length5:00

$1.00

$1.30

III. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length8:09

$2.00

$2.60

IV. Adagio - Allegro

Track length10:04

$3.00

$3.85

Mozart: String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K593

Work length23:08

$5.00

$6.50

Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 19 September 1953

I. Larghetto

Track length7:37

$2.00

$2.60

II. Adagio

Track length6:37

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto: Allegretto

Track length4:47

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length4:07

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 in E flat major, K614

Work length21:46

$5.00

$6.50

Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Amadeus Quartet
Recorded: 29 November 1957

I. Allegretto di molto

Track length5:28

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante

Track length7:27

$2.00

$2.60

III. Menuetto: Allegretto

Track length3:42

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length5:09

$1.00

$1.30

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The third volume of radio recordings with the Amadeus Quartet is dedicated to works of its eponym. From the very beginning, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s string quartets were a matter of the heart for the Amadeus Quartet. During the ensemble’s long career, which lasted for nearly 40 years, the great majority of its concert programmes contained at least one work by Mozart.

It is not widely known that the Amadeus Quartet made studio recordings for the Berlin broadcasting corporation RIAS every year for nearly two decades. These previously unreleased Mozart recordings from the archives of Deutschlandradio Kultur, the legal successor to RIAS, were made during the quartet’s first ten years. They feature eight of the ten great string quartets written during Mozart’s mature period and show the ensemble at a very high technical and musical level, even at that early stage of its career. The great attention to detail and highly controlled form, in combination with great expression, create the prerequisite for musical spontaneity. These recordings are also of particular interest as they document the Amadeus Quartet at different levels in its reading of Mozart. In the first studio recordings of 1950 and 1951 the ensemble’s surprisingly unusual and experimental interpretational approach opened up hitherto unknown expressive possibilities.

This edition is complemented by recordings of Mozart’s four great string quintets. The second viola part is played by the South-African-born Cecil Aronowitz. He was occasionally referred to as the fifth member of the Amadeus Quartet as he was nearly always engaged when a second viola was needed. Three of the four string quintets were recorded in the studio in one single recording session in 1953 – given the high musical quality of these tapes, this is proof of the extraordinary standard of the ensemble, able to lay down a recording more or less straight away. Another peak is the recording of Mozart’s clarinet quintet with Heinrich Geuser, one of the leading clarinettists of his time.

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December 2014

marvellous and in amazing sound (as usual Audite has achieved astonishing results with the master tapes) … With an interesting note as well as superb remastering this is an exceptional Mozart collection.

October 2014

The sound quality is … excellent for its age … an unusually intimate view of the proceedings … big hearted Mozart playing.

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