Flonzaley String Quartet - Mozart D K575 - II Andante

The Flonzaley String Quartet performs Mozart's K575 2nd movement - Andante. From Biddulph recording which is out of print. Flower pics taken by my son.
The Quartet was the deliberate creation of Éduard J. de Coppet of New York, who in 1902 engaged the original members to devote themselves entirely to quartet-playing, and not with any view to giving regular concerts in public. The group took its name from de Coppet's summer villa near Lausanne, in Switzerland, where the four musicians first rehearsed. After a long period of practice, the Quartet made a European tour and won high praise for the perfection of its ensemble and its artistic finish. Both violinists and the violist had been students of the Belgian maestro César Thomson. The group was first heard in New York, in private and at charity concerts, in autumn 1904, but it did not give a public concert in the USA until 5 December 1905. After that it appeared regularly in Europe and America. The members stuck to the original principle of not accepting any outside engagement, and having no pupils, and by devoting themselves entirely to the quartet maintained a position of acknowledged superiority in their field. They disbanded in 1928. (from Wikipedia)

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[2ndviolinist]

I certainly agree! I'm assuming you mean recording quality when you refer to clear playing. It's amazing how clear and what good quality a clean 78 played on high quality players of the time can sound. Many examples on YT. Transfers to CD vary quite a bit from clear with depth to overly cleaned up, even ghostly sounding. Of course many performances are only found in scratchy versions but often worth the trouble to learn to hear the quality of playing through the noise.