Hello I'm Krusty Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1978 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. For the first time in the history of Desert Islanders we have four castaways on the island at the same time,

the members of the Amadeus Quartet.

They are Norbert Brinin, Seagmond, Nissel, Peter Sheedlov and Martin Lovett.

At any rate, gentlemen, you're not going to be faced with the extremes of loneliness.

Now, we've agreed that you're going to choose two records each.

We'll start with Norbert Brinen as the leader of the Quartet.

How long is it now you've been together?

Is it 25, 30 years? It's 30 is 30 years yes 30 years this year yes what

was the date of your first concert the date of our first concert was 10th of

January 1948 at the Wigmore Hall. So you've been together 30 years and one month?

Yeah, actually we've been together for 31 years because for a whole year previously we worked very very hard indeed together all that time

are never across word okay no but you're from Vienna of course. Yes, Roy.

A musical family?

No, I'm afraid not.

No, I'm the only musician in the family far and wide,

with the exception of my cousin who did play the violin who gave me my first lesson but he was not a musician by profession and he only played he played in a cafe house in Vienna to supplement his income so as to enable him to study.

How old were you when you had that first lesson?

Seven.

And you left Vienna, of course, at the time of the Anschliss

in 1938.

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