V026: Les Musiciens du Quatuor: Variations sur un Theme Europeen, 2me Mouvement
1991, VHS (PAL), color, 1:00:00, in English and German with French subtitles
L'I.N.A. / La S.E.P.T. / C.S.T. / M.T.V. France
Produced by Georges Zeisel
Scenario by Georges Zeisel and Catherine Zins
| Time | Description |
| 00:00 | Credits |
| 01:15 | Quartets competing at the Portsmouth International String Quartet Competition (1988) |
| 02:50 | Interview with Walter Levin of the LaSalle Quartet |
| 03:30 | Scenes of Prague and Budapest and Vienna while quartet plays Beethoven no. 9, II |
| 06:00 | Interview with Sándor Végh of the Végh Quartet |
| 07:00 | Quartet rehearsing at the Vienna Musikakademie, coached by Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet |
| 08:22 | Interview with Pichler |
| 10:00 | Alban Berg Quartet performing Schubert quartet no. 14 ("Death and the Maiden") |
| 12:18 | Interview with Pichler |
| 12:41 | Interview with Yehudi Menuhin (in French) about the influence of Hungarian musical style on German composers |
| 14:38 | Footage of popular (peasant) dance in Transylvania |
| 15:00 | Interview with Végh |
| 16:25 | Quartet rehearsing at the Budapest Academy of Music, coached by Sándor Devich |
| 19:20 | Interview with Devich |
| 20:45 | Keller Quartet rehearsing Bartók quartet no. 2, coached by András Mihály |
| 22:15 | Interview with Mihály |
| 23:30 | Quartet rehearsal (Bartók 2nd) |
| 25:00 | Interview with Végh |
| 26:45 | Interview with Přemysl Špidlen, Prague instrument maker |
| 28:55 | Smetana Quartet performing Smetana quartet no. 1 |
| 30:00 | Interview with Antonín Kohout of the Smetana Quartet |
| 31:25 | Smetana Quartet performing Janáček quartet no. 1 |
| 33:13 | Martinu Quartet rehearsing the Janáček quartet no. 2 at the Prague Academy of Music, coached by Milan Skampa |
| 36:38 | Interview with the Martinu Quartet |
| 37:22 | Quatuor Arpeggione rehearsing the Debussy string quartet, coached by Serge Collot |
| 38:11 | Interview with Végh |
| 38:44 | Quartuor Arpeggione |
| 41:15 | Interview with Collot |
| 42:10 | Quartuor Arpeggione |
| 44:30 | Photos and recordings of famous early string players, footage of Jeno Hubay (1937) |
| 45:30 | Interview with Végh |
| 46:30 | Végh Quartet (with E. Czakó) performing the Schubert quintet D. 956 (for 2 cellos) |
| 47:49 | Interview with Végh |
| 48:25 | Lafayette String Quartet (USA) competing in Portsmouth with the Beethoven quartet no. 7 |
| 49:25 | Interview with the Lafayette Quartet |
| 50:45 | Interview with Walter Levin of the LaSalle Quartet |
| 52:30 | Shanghai Quartet competing with the Beethoven quartet no. 8 |
| 53:20 | Interview with Hatto Beyerle and Walter Levin |
| 54:50 | Menuhin announces results of Portsmouth Competition |
| 55:15 | Interview with Martinů Quartet |
| 56:00 | Quartet rehearsing, coached by Pichler. Interview with Pichler. |
| 58:35 | Credits |