Willi Boskovsky - Ensemble Recordings

Ensemble Recordings

The Boskovsky Quartet and Vienna Octet, in various permutations, made a number of well-known recordings for Decca Records, among which are the following:

• Dvořák, Quartet no 3 E flat major op 51 (LXT 2601). (EMG Monthly Newsletter review September 1951).
• Schubert, Octet in F major op 166 (LXT 2983). (EMG review December 1958). (Decca CD 466580).
• Schubert, 'Trout' Quintet, with Walter Panhoffer (LXT 2533). (issued by 1950, EMG review Feb 1959). (Pearl CD 0129).
• Schubert, 'Trout' Quintet, with Clifford Curzon (LXT 5433). (EMG review September 1958).
• Beethoven, Septet in E flat major op 20 (78rpm, AX 306-10 (10 sides), Ace of Diamonds SDD 200). (issued by 1950). (Testament CD 1261).
• Brahms, Clarinet Quintet op 115. (LXT 2858; Testament CD 1282).
• Spohr, Nonet op 31 (LXT 2782). (EMG review May 1953). (Testament CD 1261).
• Spohr, Octet op 32 (LXT 5294). (EMG review August 1957). (Decca CD 466580).
• Mendelssohn, Octet in E flat major op 20 (LXT 2870). (EMG review February 1954).
• Kreutzer, Grand Septet in E flat major op 62 (LXT 2628). (EMG review December 1951).
• Poot, Octet (LXT 5294). (EMG review August 1957).
• Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A major K 581 (LXT 5032). (EMG review June 1955). (Testament CD 1282).
• Mozart, Quintet in E flat major K 452 (LXT 5293). (EMG review April 1957).
• Mozart, Trio in E flat major K 498, with Walter Panhoffer (LXT 5293). (EMG review April 1957).
• Mozart, Divertimento in F major K 247 (lx 3105 (78 rpm)). (issued by 1953).
• Mozart, Divertimento in B flat major K 287 (LXT 5112). (EMG review September 1956).
• Mozart, Divertimento in D major K 334 (with Otto Nitsch, horn), (LXT 2542). (issued by 1950, EMG review Feb 1951). (Pearl CD 0129).

Willi Boskovsky plays the solo violin line in the Clemens Krauss recording of Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben (Decca LP ACL 241).