Polydor 27216 Haydn Quartet in C Op.76 No.3 (ii) ('Variations'), Wendling Quartet - Free Archive Audio

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

String Quartet in C major Op.76 No.3
II. Poco adagio, cantabile (billed on disc labels as ‘Variations’)

Wendling String Quartet
Carl Wendling (violin I)
Hermann Hubl (violin II)
Ludwig Natterer (viola)
Alfred Saal (’cello)

Recorded: 10 April 1929, Berlin
Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 12” / 30 cm, electrical
Matrices: 371 bs IV / 372 bs IV
Issued: 1929
Catalogue number: 27216

Issue date from Mechanical Copyright date stamped in runout

Export issue; also issued in Germany on Grammophon under same catalogue number

To address pitch fluctuations in original recording, possibly resulting from resistance to disc cutter head, transfer presented in three versions:

[original] = disc as transferred
[patched] = brief patch at side-change adjusted in digital domain
[repitched] = entire transfer (minimally) adjusted in digital domain

Transfer and restoration: Andrew Hallifax for DogintheManger
Editing and photographs: DogintheManger

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