The Shadwick String Quartet:
Joseph Shadwick (violin)
James Soutter (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
Frederick Alexander (violoncello)
Quartet in G minor, Op. Posth.
Schubert
1 Allegro con brio. 2 Andantino. 3 Minuetto: Allegro vivace. 4 Allegro
Schubert's G minor Quartet is a comparatively youthful work, dating from about 1815. The eighteen-year-old composer had a love of chamber music in his blood, for his family practised the quartets of Haydn and Mozart regularly on Sundays and holidays. Franz himself played the viola and as early as 1812 began to compose for these family music-makings. The G minor Quartet is one of the most delightful of these early essays.
Leo Weiner was born in Budapest in 1885 and studied during the years 1901-6 at the Landesakademie, where he later became a professor. Among his chamber compositions are two string quartets, No. 1 in E flat, No. 2 in F sharp minor. The E flat Quartet was published in 1908. It is a scholarly work with a finale that is Hungarian in character.
Frank Melland
Under the direction of Peter Hodgkinson
(Midland)
from the Hungaria Restaurant
In the heart of the Magyar country, visitors from Budapest and farther afield are listening to a programme of Continental and gypsy music played by The Hungaria Gypsy Band
Bela Bizony is the conductor, and the music is introduced by Alexander Howard
Nicolas Medtner
Fairy Tale in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2. Fairy Tale in A, Op. 51, No. 3. Arabesque in G minor, Op. 7, No. 3. Danza Festiva, Op. 38, No. 3
