The Musical Art Quartet: Complete Columbia Recordings

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The inner glow of the MAQ recordings collected here (they date from 1927-28) is unmatched by any other quartet before or since, and that’s largely down to Kaufman’s exquisite viola-playing. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2023

Release Date: 19th Aug 2022
Catalogue No: 85017-2
Label: Biddulph
Length: 73 minutes

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January 2023

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Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 54 No. 2 in C major

Work length18:18

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Sascha Jacobsen (violin), Bernard Ocko (violin), Louis Kaufman (viola), Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff (cello)
Musical Art Quartet

I. Vivace

Track length4:44

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II. Adagio

Track length3:27

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III. Menuetto. Allegretto

Track length3:43

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IV. Finale. Adagio

Track length6:24

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Excerpt, Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 in D major 'The Lark'

Work length2:19

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Sascha Jacobsen (violin), Bernard Ocko (violin), Louis Kaufman (viola), Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff (cello)
Musical Art Quartet

IV. Finale. Vivace

Track length2:19

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Schubert: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, D87

Work length17:42

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Sascha Jacobsen (violin), Paul Bernard (violin), Louis Kaufman (viola), Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff (cello)
Musical Art Quartet

I. Allegro moderato

Track length5:47

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II. Scherzo. Prestissimo

Track length1:40

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III. Adagio

Track length4:28

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IV. Allegro

Track length5:47

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Schubert: String Quartet No. 11 in E major, D353

Work length3:00

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Sascha Jacobsen (violin), Paul Bernard (violin), Louis Kaufman (viola), Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff (cello)
Musical Art Quartet

III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace

Track length3:00

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Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde'

Work length27:52

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Sascha Jacobsen (violin), Paul Bernard (violin), Louis Kaufman (viola), Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff (cello)
Musical Art Quartet

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length8:57

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II. Andante

Track length6:48

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III. Menuetto. Allegretto

Track length5:24

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IV. Allegro moderato

Track length6:43

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Schubert: Ständchen 'Horch! Horch! die Lerch!', D889

Work length4:11

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Arr. C. Held for String Quartet
Sascha Jacobsen (violin), Paul Bernard (violin), Louis Kaufman (viola), Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff (cello)
Musical Art Quartet

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Led by the Russian-born violinist Sasha Jacobsen, the Musical Art Quartet was was one of the preeminent quartets established in the US. In fact, the famed cellist Gregor Piatigorsky proclaimed that the Musical Art Quartet was the greatest quartet he ever heard. First violinist Jacobsen made numerous solo recordings before he established the Musical Art Quartet, but is probably best known as the fourth and final name of the popular Gershwin song “Mischa, Jascha, Toscha and Sascha”, the forenames of four renowned Russian-Jewish violinists: Elman, Heifetz, Seidel and Jacobsen. Furthermore, the violist in the Musical Art Quartet was none other than Louis Kaufman, a major violin soloist in his own right. Jacobsen formed the Musical Art Quartet in 1926, and this recording features the ensemble’s complete recordings of quartets by Haydn and Schubert made for the Columbia label in the late-1920s. Their recording of Haydn’s C-major Quartet, op.54 no.2, is the first complete recording of a Haydn quartet ever made. Although the Quartet lasted for over two decades, this contains the group’s only recordings of the quartet repertoire.

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January 2023

The inner glow of the MAQ recordings collected here (they date from 1927-28) is unmatched by any other quartet before or since, and that’s largely down to Kaufman’s exquisite viola-playing.

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