V026: Les Musiciens du Quatuor: Variations sur un Theme Europeen, 2me Mouvement
1991, VHS (PAL), color, 1:00:00, in English and German with French subtitles
L'I.N.A. / La S.E.P.T. / C.S.T. / M.T.V. France
Produced by Georges Zeisel
Scenario by Georges Zeisel and Catherine Zins
Time Description 00:00 Credits 01:15 Quartets competing at the Portsmouth International String Quartet Competition (1988) 02:50 Interview with Walter Levin of the LaSalle Quartet 03:30 Scenes of Prague and Budapest and Vienna while quartet plays Beethoven no. 9, ii 06:00 Interview with Sándor Vegh of the Vegh Quartet 07:00 Quartet rehearsing at the Vienna Musikakademie, coached by Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet 08:22 Interview with Pichler 10:00 Alban Berg Quartet performing Schubert quartet no. 14 ("Death and the Maiden") 12:18 Interview with Pichler 12:41 Interview with Yehudi Menuhin (in French) about the influence of Hungarian musical style on German composers 14:38 Footage of popular (peasant) dance in Transylvania 15:00 Interview with Vegh 16:25 Quartet rehearsing at the Budapest Academy of Music, coached by Sándor Devich 19:20 Interview with Devich 20:45 Keller Quartet rehearsing Bártok quartet no. 2, coached by András Mihály 22:15 Interview with Mihály 23:30 Quartet rehearsal (Bártok 2nd) 25:00 Interview with Vegh 26:45 Interview with Premysl Spidlen, Prague instrument maker 28:55 Smetana Quartet performing Smetana quartet no. 1 30:00 Interview with Antonín Kohout of the Smetana Quartet 31:25 Smetana Quartet performing Janácek quartet no. 1 33:13 Martinu Quartet rehearsing the Janácek quartet no. 2 at the Prague Academy of Music, coached by Milan Skampa 36:38 Interview with the Martinu Quartet 37:22 Quartuor Arpeggione rehearsing the Debussy string quartet, coached by Serge Collot 38:11 Interview with Vegh 38:44 Quartuor Arpeggione 41:15 Interview with Collot 42:10 Quartuor Arpeggione 44:30 Photos and recordings of famous early string players, footage of Jeno Hubay (1937) 45:30 Interview with Vegh 46:30 Vegh Quartet (with E. Czako) performing the Schubert quintet D. 956 (for 2 cellos) 47:49 Interview with Vegh 48:25 Lafayette Quartet (USA) competing in Portsmouth with the Beethoven quartet no. 7 49:25 Interview with the Lafayette Quartet 50:45 Interview with Walter Levin of the LaSalle Quartet 52:30 Shanghai Quartet competing with the Beethoven quartet no. 8 53:20 Interview with Hatto Beyerle and Walter Levin 54:50 Menuhin announces results of Portsmouth Competition 55:15 Interview with Martinu Quartet 56:00 Quartet rehearsing, coached by Pichler. Interview with Pichler. 58:35 Credits