Con Brio: Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet

by Nat Brandt

Book Overview

Meet the Budapest String Quartet, captured here in a 1959 New Yorker profile that exemplified not only the way they handled stress, but the way they handled their life and music: "Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples. Kroyt...stopped playing and started singing a Russian song...Mischa Schneider thereupon performed a number of stupendous triads on his cello...Only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195081072
• ISBN13: 9780195081077
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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