NOTE: The AGP will be off for three weeks, returning to action on August 22.
AGP113 continues our tribute to Othmar Schoeck with recordings of his two string quartets, performed by the Neues Zürcher Quartett and transcribed from a PAN LP (130048). Another recording of these works is available on CD, but this one appears never to have been re-released. It's a clear, warm recording from 1981. The LP packs almost half an hour of music per side, so there's mild tracking distortion in the last couple of minutes of each side, but it's not too bad. And otherwise the LP is in great shape. Schoeck's string quartets are both mature works (from 1913 and 1923), and to varying degrees bring to mind the quartets of Debussy, Zemlinsky, Janacek, and Martinu.
Check it out at:
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4314950
Enjoy!