2ndviolinist's video: Flonzaley String Quartet - Mozart: K 575 Entire

This is a repost of this quartet. I first posted it in segments when only 10 minutes uploads were allowed. Recorded between 1926-28. 1. Allegretto 2. Andante 4:52 3. Minuetto allegretto 8:44 4. Allegretto 12:33 From Wikipedia The Quartet was the deliberate creation of Éduard J. de Coppet of New York, who in 1902 engaged the original members to devote themselves entirely to quartet-playing, and not with any view to giving regular concerts in public. The group took its name from de Coppet's summer villa near Lausanne, in Switzerland, where the four musicians first rehearsed. After a long period of practice, the Quartet made a European tour and won high praise for the perfection of its ensemble and its artistic finish. Both violinists and the violist had been students of the Belgian maestro César Thomson. The group was first heard in New York, in private and at charity concerts, in autumn 1904, but it did not give a public concert in the USA until 5 December 1905. After that it appeared regularly in Europe and America. The members stuck to the original principle of not accepting any outside engagement, and having no pupils, and by devoting themselves entirely to the quartet maintained a position of acknowledged superiority in their field. They disbanded in 1928. The personnel of the group were as follows: 1st Violin: Adolfo Betti (Bagni di Lucca, 21 March 1875 – Lucca, 2 December 1950). 2nd Violin: Alfred Pochon (Yverdon, 30 July 1878 – Lutry, 26 February 1959). Viola: Ugo Ara (Venezia, 1876 – Lausanne, 1 December 1936), until 1917; replaced by Louis Bailly (Valenciennes, 13 June 1882 – Cowansville, Québec, 21 November 1974), until 1924; by Félicien d'Archambeau (? – ?), until 1925; by Nicolas Moldavan (Kremenetz, 23 January 1891 – New York, 21 September 1974), until disbanding in 1928. Cello: Iwan d'Archambeau (Herve, 1879 – Villefranche-sur-Mer, 29 December 1955)