DESCRIPTION:
Schubert: Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat, Op. 125, No. 1 (D. 87)
The Guilet String Quartet:
Daniel Guilet, violin I
Jac Gorodetzky, violin II
Frank Brieff, viola
Lucien Laporte, cello

Recorded c. 1946 for Concert Hall Society, on 78-rpm matrices 1021 through 1026, and issued in early 1947 as Series A, Album E (i.e., not part of the subscription series, but as a general release and available as an individual set).

The Schubert Quartet in E-Flat is in four movements:

1. Allegro moderato
2. Scherzo: Prestissimo (at 8:14)
3. Adagio (at 9:57)
4. Allegro (at 16:40)

Of the Guilet Quartet's members, Daniel Guilet would later be one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio (with Menahem Pressler, pianist, and Bernard Greenhouse, cellist). Jac Gorodetzky was subsequently second violinist of the Budapest String Quartet before Alexander Schneider returned to that ensemble in 1955. Frank Brieff later had a distinguished career as a conductor (of the New Haven Symphony), and Lucien Laporte became a member of the Paganini Quartet.

About the same time as this Schubert recording, the Guilet Quartet made first recordings of Bartók's Fourth Quartet and of Hindemith's Op. 32, for Concert Hall's subscription series; and, for Vox, Brahms' Quartet in B-Flat, Op. 67. Subsequent recordings included works by Boccherini, Mendelssohn and Randall Thompson.