V027: Les Musiciens du Quatuor: Largo desolato: L'exil
1991, VHS (PAL), color, 51:00, 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
Credits listed at end.
| Time | Description |
| 0:00 | Credits |
| 1:15 | Le Quatuor Ludwig playing Berg's Lyric Suite (Allegretto Gioviale), being coached by Eugene Lehner (violist of the Kolisch Quartet, 1926-1940) |
| 3:45 | Street scenes, Vienna early 20th century, more credits |
| 5:00 | Modern Vienna, Lehner lecturing – compares Viennese musical life to the popularity of baseball in America |
| 7:00 | Early Viennese urban scenes |
| 7:50 | Lehner continues, discusses his early career, joining the Kolisch Quartet |
| 8:45 | Scenes of modern Vienna; Lehner continues, discusses the premiere of Berg's Lyric Suite; Quatuor Ludwig plays the Lyric Suite (Andante Amoroso) |
| 10:35 | Photo of Louis Krasner, violinist; interview with Krasner |
| 11:20 | Rehearsal with violinist and pianist of Schoenberg's Phantasy, op. 47 |
| 13:15 | Photo of Schoenberg; interview with Krasner; photos of Anton Webern and Alban Berg |
| 13:30 | Quatuor Ludwig rehearsing Berg's Lyric Suite (Adagio Appassionato) |
| 16:05 | Lehner continues his dicussion of the Lyric Suite, a piece that expresses "infinite sadness" |
| 17:35 | Schoenberg portrait of Berg; interview with Krasner |
| 18:30 | Interview with Felix Galimir, violinist of the Galimir Quartet |
| 19:20 | Interview with Adrienne Krasner-Galimir |
| 19:55 | Felix Galimir discusses playing Beethoven; Rosé Quartet plays Beethoven's op. 18, no. 4 (recording) |
| 21:00 | Lehner discusses Rosé Quartet's premiere of Schoenberg's 2nd string quartet |
| 21:30 | Footage of Alma Mahler-Werfel and her daughter, Anna; Alma discusses Mahler's opinion of Schoenberg |
| 22:25 | Quartet performs Schoenberg's 2nd quartet, IV. movement (1908) |
| 24:45 | Felix Galimir discusses this quartet movement |
| 26:08 | Schoenberg self-portrait |
| 26:15 | Lehner discusses the intellectual climate of Vienna's fin de siècle |
| 26:45 | Scenes of modern Vienna, including Adolf Loos's building on Michaelerplatz (1910) |
| 27:00 | Quatuor LaSalle performing Webern's Bagatelles, op. 9 (1913) |
| 28:55 | Paintings by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele |
| 29:20 | Quatuor Ludwig playing Berg's Lyric Suite (Presto delirando) |
| 32:18 | Lehner continues working with the quartet on this movement |
| 33:00 | Kolisch Quartet performing Schoenberg's 1st string quartet; photos of the Kolisch Quartet and of Schoenberg |
| 33:25 | Lehner discusses a Schoenberg birthday party, the first time the Kolisch Quartet tried playing from memory, thereafter they always tried to play without music |
| 34:50 | Quartet continues |
| 35:25 | Lehner discusses their performances under the Nazi regime |
| 36:30 | Footage of Nazi book burning, Goebbels addressing the crowd (1933) |
| 37:35 | Gelimir discusses his precarious position in 1930s Vienna and subsequent move to Palestine |
| 40:00 | Footage of Anschluss; Quatuor Ludwig performing Berg's Lyric Suite (Largo desolato) |
| 41:10 | Interview with Otto Strasser, discusses founding of the Schneiderhan Quartet |
| 43:30 | Footage of the Salzburger Festspiele under Hitler, performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni |
| 43:40 | Strasser continues |
| 44:00 | Photos of the Rosé Quartet performing in London and their emigration to the US, emigration of the Galimir Quartet to the US (1938), emigration of Busch Quartet and Budapest Quartet to the US (1939), emigration of Pro Arte Quartet to the US (1940), Schoenberg's emigration to the US (1933) |
| 44:35 | Footage of Berlin Philharmonic performing Beethoven's 9th for Nazi officials (1942) |
| 45:10 | Augarten park in Vienna with flak towers |
| 45:45 | Quartet rehearsing Berg's Lyric Suite (6th movement) with Lehner |
| 49:30 | Credits |
| 51:00 | End |
Credits
Eugene Lehner
Quatuor Ludwig
J. Philippe Audoli, violin
Marc Togonal, violin
Padrig Fauré, viola
Anne Copéry, cello
Louis Krasner
Felix Galimir
Adrienne Krasner-Galimir
Otto Strasser
Le Quatuor Parisii
Thierry Brodard, violin
J. Michel Berrette, violin
Dominique Lobet, viola
J. Philippe Martignoni, cello
Liliane Mazeron, soprano