Tátrai Quartet

These six quartets represent a high point of the Viennese classical style. In his later quartets, Haydn began traveling on the road to musical Romanticism and reached out to a large musical public. These magnificent pieces, on the other hand, have an intimacy, an elegance, and a generosity of spirit that make them very special, even given the almost unparalleled series of masterpieces that the Haydn quartets represent.

A massive set - 67 string quartets on 21 discs in a budget-priced, shelf-friendly, compact box. So the obvious question is: do you need it? The equally obvious answer is a resounding "yes" if you love these endlessly inventive quartets and if you appreciate superbly played performances that capture both the letter and the spirit of Haydn's genius. The Angeles String Quartet isn't as well known as some ensembles that have recorded complete Haydn sets, but they are superior to all, with the arguable exception of the Tatrai Quartet. They demonstrate technical polish and rich, warm sound that's never cloying. And they give these works the forward-moving impetus they need within a classical framework, eschewing both anachronistic Romanticism and the mechanical astringency of period specialists.

Syriust was founded in 1962 by Zsolt Baronits . At first they played dance and beat music, then in 1968 the band broke up, some of the members formed the Juventus band . Baronits as leader of the Syrius band started to reorganize their ensemble. László Pataki from Liversing , Miklós Orszáczky and László Mogyorósi from the New Cancer , and András Veszelinov from the Metro . Tomorrow he was replaced by Tamás Barta at the guitars and then left the band with László Rákosi, another guitar player. 1970At the beginning, Mihály Ráduly joined the exquisite jazz musician of the Pege Quartet, creating the legendary lineup of Syrius.
Recorded live at the Margitszigeti Szabadtéri Színpad (Budapest), September 7th 2001