…István Kertész! And yes she is.
But not István Kertész the conductor…! Of course the “is she related to” question popped in my mind, so I wrote a mail to the quartet’s website. The anewer revealed that she is related to a István Kertész, the primarius of the renown and pioneering Festetics Quartet. They were one of the first string quartets playing on “authentic instruments”, just like the Kertész Quartet, by the way. But what does these trivialities matter, the Kertész Quartet made a splendid recording of an unknown Bohemian composer named Wenzel Heinrich Veit. Fine music, compared in this review to Ludwig Spohr, but with enough own voice to be recommended by me. To fill the playlist I found two recordings by the Festetics Quartet that drew praise from Classics today (Haydn, Emperor quartet) and the Gramophone (Haydn’s last, unfinished d minor quartet from 1803) and fit nicely between the two Veit quartets. Hope you will like this playlist as much as I did the last couple of weeks ;-)
Wenzel Heinrich Veit (1806–64)
Tracks 01-04 Quartet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 3 (1834)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Tracks 05-08 Quartet No. 62 in C major, Op. 76, No. 3 in (1798)
Tracks 09-10 Quartet No. 68 in D minor, Op. 103 (1803)
Wenzel Heinrich Veit (1806–64)
Tracks 11-14 Quartet No. 2 in E Major, Op. 5 (1835)
Kertész Quartet (in the Veit quartets)
Katalin Kertész, Eleanor Harrison, violin
Nichola Blakey, viola;
Tatty Theo, cello
(on authentic instruments)
Festetics Quartet (in the Haydn quartets)
István Kertész, Petőfi Erika, violin
Péter Ligeti, viola
Rezsö Pertorini, cello
(on authentic instruments)
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