THE PASCAL QUARTET
[HE French Pascal Quartet will tour New Zealand next April and May under the auspices of the New Zealand Federation of Chamber Music Societies and the NZBS. Among its broadcast programmes will be all 16 of the Beethoven quartets and the Grosse Fugue, The quartet was founded in Marseilles before the war and for the last 13. years has had the samesfour members, all of whom studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where they won important awards. They are Jacques Dumont, born in Orleans, who won the Nadaud prize, the senior violin-solo award from the Orchestre National and the Société des Concerts. He is also a composer and received excellent press notices when the Pascal Quartet played his first quartet in Paris recently. Maurice Crut, born in Paris,
has played with the principal French associations. , Leon Pascal, the viola player, was a member, of the Calvet ‘Quartet for 15 years, and was appointed Viola Professor of the .Paris Conservatoire.. He comes from Montpellier, Robert Salles, the *cellist, was a member of the Orlambert Quartet and began his career as.a soloist. He is a native of Bordeaux. The Quartet has a very wide repertoire, consisting of classical, romantic and modern works. It was the first to record all the Beethoven quartets and the ten Mozart quintets. Several years ago the Radiodiffusion Francaise honoured the Quartet by conferring the official title "De la Radiodiffusion Francaise" on it, and for three consecutive years, 1950-52, it was awarded the Grand Prix for its chamber music recordings. The Quartet has made several tours of the United States, and after the war was given an official welcome in, Canada and the players made honorary citizens of Montreal. It has also played in the principal European countries and in Africa. In the photograph reproduced above, Leon Pascal is seated in the centre, between Dumont and Crut, with the ‘cellist Salles on the right. The following are the Beethoven broadcasts from the YC stations by the Pascal Quartet: — Dunedin, Tuesday, April 19, 8.0 p.m. to 10.0; Christchurch, Tuesday, April 26, 8.0 to 10.0; Wellington, Thursday, April 28, 8.0 to 9.45; Auckland, Wednesday, May 4, 8.0 to 10.0; Hamilton, Wednesday, May 11, 8.0 to 10.0. Details of six other broadcasts have still to be decided,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 7
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378THE PASCAL QUARTET New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 7
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