Your favourite chamber music recordings from the days of bakelite.

[Mandryka]

Drasko  recommended the Galimir Quartet's recording of the Ravel Quartet (1934) on another thread. Well, I duly followed up the recommendation and what a surprise!. What glorious music making! Thank you Drasko.

The experience  inspired me to dig around my collection for other great old chamber recordings. Such  forgotten treasure. Over the past few days I have been relishing the Kalish playing Schubert's G major and the Capet in Beethoven Ops 131 and 132.

What are your favourite chamber music recordings from the days of bakelite?

[Que]

Brahms' piano quintet by Rudolf Serkin and the Busch Quartet.

Q

[Tyson]

What's bakelite?

[Scarpia]

What's bakelite?

It was a type of plastic popular in the first half of the 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Brahms' piano quintet by Rudolf Serkin and the Busch Quartet.

Q

Don't forget about the incredible performance of Brahms' clarinet quintet with Reginald Kell and the Busch SQ!

[Sergeant Rock]

My unprentending love's the B flat major
by the old Budapest done.
         John Berryman "Beethoven Triumphant"


Recorded in 1933/34



Sarge

[Drasko]

Well, you already have some of my favorites: Galimir Qt Ravel and Kolisch Qt Schubert (I assume that's what you mean by Kalish). Other than that Schumann Piano Quintet with Gabrilowitsch / Flonzaley Qt and Kreisler / Rachmaninov Schubert/Grieg/Beethoven sonatas.

[Scarpia]

Just about anything from the Griller Quartet. 

[Josquin des Prez]

Just about anything from the Griller Quartet.

[DavidW]

Kreisler and Schnabel are both amazing musicians.

[Mandryka]

Well, you already have some of my favorites: Galimir Qt Ravel and Kolisch Qt Schubert (I assume that's what you mean by Kalish). Other than that Schumann Piano Quintet with Gabrilowitsch / Flonzaley Qt and Kreisler / Rachmaninov Schubert/Grieg/Beethoven sonatas.

The music I enjoy most from the Flonzaley Quartet is the first Schumann Quartet.

I have never really liked the Schumann Piano Quintet at all -- except for the march of course.  For Brahms Op 67 I always tend to turn to Busch or ABQ (Teldec) for this one. I can't remember their Schubert G major or the Brahms with Harold Bauer -- I'll try to hear them again this wekend.

[Renfield]

Undoubtedly this one; possibly my favourite chamber recording in general.

[Brahmsian]

Not sure if this qualifies as from the 'bakelite' days, but:

Borodin Quartet recording of Tchaikovsky's string quartets and string sextet.

[Drasko]

The music I enjoy most from the Flonzaley Quartet is the first Schumann Quartet.

I have never really liked the Schumann Piano Quintet at all -- except for the march of course.  For Brahms Op 67 I always tend to turn to Busch or ABQ (Teldec) for this one. I can't remember their Schubert G major or the Brahms with Harold Bauer -- I'll try to hear them again this wekend.

Schubert is too soft, Brahms Quintet with Bauer is good, Brahms' op.67 is unfortunately missing half of the finale (my favorite op.67 is Prazak). Too bad you don't like Schumann Quintet because that is standout of the set (along with op.41/1).

Not sure if this qualifies as from the 'bakelite' days, but:
Borodin Quartet recording of Tchaikovsky's string quartets and string sextet.

Not sure. I think he meant from the days of 78s, that would be up to late 40s.