Stuyvesant Quartet play Hindemith, Villa-Lobos & Quincy Porter
Stuyvesant Quartet
Now that one of America’s great string quartets of the past, the Hollywood Quartet, is well represented on CD, it’s time to revive the others. Parnassus takes a step towards that goal by releasing the first CD of the Stuyvesant String Quartet. The disc includes famous recordings of Quartets by Hindemith and Villa-Lobos, along with a previously unpublished live performance of Quincy Porter’s String Quartet No. 7.
The Stuyvesant String Quartet was founded in 1938 by brothers Sylvan Shulman, the first violinist, and Alan Shulman, the cellist. It made its first recordings, for Columbia, the following year, beginning a successful series of 20th century chamber music 78 sets which included the premiere of Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet.
Although it played few concerts during World War II, the Stuyvesant Quartet reformed in 1945 and resumed its successful career. After recording the Villa-Lobos String Quartet No. 6 on 78s for the International label, included on the new CD (tracks 4-7), the Stuyvesant Quartet made two LPs for the Concert Hall Society. The group then started its own label, Philharmonia Records, in partnership with legendary recording engineer Norman Pickering. The Hindemith Quartet, Op. 10 (tracks 1-3), remastered from the original tapes, was recorded for that label.
The Stuyvesant Quartet made its last recording in 1953 and disbanded in 1954. But its recordings were introduced to a new generation of listeners by reissues of the Philharmonia recordings on the Nonesuch label in 1964, followed by an Odyssey reissue in 1980. Reviewing this last-mentioned publication, Richard Freed wrote in Stereo Review: “The Stuyvesant recordings always gave us an image of four musicians not only in total accord with each other, but crazy about the music they chose to play.”
The recordings an this CD have been remastered from a variety of sources by the well- known audio restorer Mark Obert-Thorn.
* Paul Hindemith(1895 – 1963)
String Quartet i F minor, Opus 10 (1918) 28:59[1] Sehr lebhaft, straff im Rhythmus (5:22)[2] Thema mit variationen: Gemächlich (9:33)[3] Fianle (Sehr lebhaft) (13:41)
Recorded 1 November 1950, Mannes School, New York City. Norman Pickering, engineer.
* Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959)
String Qurstet no. 6 in E major (Quartetto Brasiliero, No. 2) (1938) 24:28[4] Poco Animato (6:32)[5] Allegretto (4:53)[6] Andante (7:03)[7] Allegro Vivace (6:24)
Recorded 7 May 1947, Majestic Theatre, New York City
* Quincy Porter (1897 – 2966)
String Quartet No. 7 (1943) 15:32[8] Allegro moderato (6:17)[9]Adagio molto (4:56)[10]Allegro moderato (3:53)
Broadcast Concert, 17 February 1948 Town Hall, New York City. Previosly Unreleased
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