The Budapest String Quartet <br> Mozart Performances <BR> BRIDGE 9085A/BFanfare: Best of Year The annotator of this release, Harris Goldsmith, writes: "What a stimulating and thought provoking diversity for Mozarteans! With this release, listeners can welcome a brilliant addition to the legacy of recorded music." On this two disc set Bridge Records issues five Budapest String Quartet Mozart performances recordings never before released to the public in any format. Mr. Goldsmith opines that "at long last, we have the first

Stravinsky's Sonata is spare in texture

gives the 67 minute cycle of 24 "zodiac" pieces a spectacular reading

Including numerous instrumental interludes and transcription of bird song

which is preformed here by the noted chamber players

Makrokosmos I and II have come to be regarded as landmark compositions in the piano repertoire

the performance of the Violin Concerto on the other CD is especially interesting

81A Sonata "Lebewohl" was to have been a memento of the composer's emotions when his pupil and loyal friend

for the first time on disc

Shostakovich: Trio No

Sonata (1945-46)

Karl and Margaret Kohn

In the Douze Étude of 1915