Mozart's Last 10 String Quartets (Pick 3)

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Choose your 3 favorite Mozart String Quartets out of the last 10

#14 in G, K.387
6 (42.9%)
#15 in  D minor, K.421
6 (42.9%)
#16 in E flat, K.428
6 (42.9%)
#17 in B flat, K.458 "Hunt"
6 (42.9%)
#18 in A, K.464
6 (42.9%)
#19 in C, K.465 "Dissonant"
9 (64.3%)
#20 in D, K.499 "Hoffmeister"
4 (28.6%)
#21 in D, K.575
3 (21.4%)
#22 in B flat, K.589
2 (14.3%)
#23 in F, K.590
3 (21.4%)

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ChamberNut

August 19, 2009, 07:14:23 AM
Choose up to 3  0:)

Gurn Blanston

#1
August 19, 2009, 07:35:14 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on August 19, 2009, 07:14:23 AM
Choose up to 3  0:)

You're an animal, Ray!  0:)

Pick 3.... why, I oughtta... :P

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ChamberNut

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August 19, 2009, 07:37:04 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on August 19, 2009, 07:35:14 AM
You're an animal, Ray!  0:)

Pick 3.... why, I oughtta... :P

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Well, it wouldn't be fun if you could pick all 10, now would it?  :P ;)

Gurn Blanston

#3
August 19, 2009, 07:38:29 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on August 19, 2009, 07:37:04 AM
Well, it wouldn't be fun if you could pick all 10, now would it?  :P ;)

Umm, well, I always have before. :)

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Dr. Dread

#4
August 19, 2009, 07:39:22 AM
Is there a complete box of these?

Gurn Blanston

#5
August 19, 2009, 07:40:57 AM
Quote from: HM Dave on August 19, 2009, 07:39:22 AM
Is there a complete box of these?

Probably many of them. Most groups just played the Last 10. I'll let someone else get into making rec's. I just rec music (particularly these!). :)

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ChamberNut

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August 19, 2009, 07:41:04 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on August 19, 2009, 07:38:29 AM
Umm, well, I always have before. :)

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Me too  :)  Does anyone actually pay attention to the early quartets (1 to 13)?  They are never talked about, it would seem.

Gurn Blanston

#7
August 19, 2009, 07:44:45 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on August 19, 2009, 07:41:04 AM
Me too  :)  Does anyone actually pay attention to the early quartets (1 to 13)?  They are never talked about, it would seem.

I like several of them, starting with the one in d minor. I only have one complete set (Talich on Calliope), but I like it quite a lot. Even I, who doesn't discriminate against early compositions, will freely admit that in the 10 years between the 2 d minor quartets Mozart learned a thing or two... :)

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karlhenning

#8
August 19, 2009, 08:15:53 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on August 19, 2009, 07:44:45 AM
. . . Even I, who don't discriminate against early compositions, will freely admit that in the 10 years between the 2 d minor quartets Mozart learned a thing or two... :)

Also sprach Gurn!  0:) :)

karlhenning

#9
August 19, 2009, 08:16:33 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on August 19, 2009, 07:38:29 AM
Umm, well, I always have before. :)

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Yes, I have no heart for removing any of those 10, either!

DavidW

#10
August 19, 2009, 08:19:20 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on August 19, 2009, 07:44:45 AM
I like several of them, starting with the one in d minor. I only have one complete set (Talich on Calliope), but I like it quite a lot. Even I, who doesn't discriminate against early compositions, will freely admit that in the 10 years between the 2 d minor quartets Mozart learned a thing or two... :)

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You know I think I used to have that set... hmm...

Well even though I the Dissonant and Hunt quartets got me into the whole thing (and I especially like the dissonant quartet), and I have a special warm place in my heart for KV 499, I think the last three are tops for me. :)

karlhenning

#11
August 19, 2009, 08:20:50 AM
Back in the day when Naxos was the young upstart company, I fetched a Mozart String Quartets Vol. 1 disc or some such.  I'm pretty sure I listened to it.  Once.

DavidW

#12
August 19, 2009, 08:22:31 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 19, 2009, 08:20:50 AM
Back in the day when Naxos was the young upstart company, I fetched a Mozart String Quartets Vol. 1 disc or some such.  I'm pretty sure I listened to it.  Once.

That was my intro as well with Dissonant and Hunt Quartet, um I think I had the earlier Naxos Q, they replaced them with the Eder Q recordings.  I can't remember the name of the ensemble I had, just know that it wasn't the Eder Q.

Sergeant Rock

#13
August 19, 2009, 08:27:20 AM
I choose the usual suspects: D minor, Hunt and Dissonance. I'm boring  ;D

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Valentino

#14
August 19, 2009, 08:34:47 AM
d minor (of course), KV428 and Dissonance.
Quote from: HM Dave on August 19, 2009, 07:39:22 AM
Is there a complete box of these?
Yup. Mosaïques, and then there is the complete set by Hagen. I find both necessary.
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#15
August 19, 2009, 09:06:22 AM
Quote from: Valentino on August 19, 2009, 08:34:47 AM
d minor (of course), KV428 and Dissonance.Yup. Mosaïques, and then there is the complete set by Hagen. I find both necessary.

And Talich, and the Italians (!! they are really good with Mozart).

snyprrr

#16
August 19, 2009, 09:12:02 AM
1) G Major: This is one powzy-wowzy SQ! All those dribbling chromatics and such. Whoever wrote this, it's quite an eyeopener for 1782. This one is a bit special for me; it just seems to have it all.

2) d minor: of course, it's in the minor. What are you going to say?

3) Eb Major: This has my favorite slow mvmt. Also, the opening unisons peg this one.

4)Bb #1 (The Hunt):  ???

5)A Major: very intricate. Still have a hard time IDing.

6)C Major (Dissonance): probably "The One."

7)D Major (Hoffmeister): one of my favs early on. Put next to K387.

8)D Major:  ???

9)Bb Major:  ???

10)F Major: from the opening unisons, this one has that mature, autumnal style that I like so much, almost reminding me of late Brahms (you know).



ok, so instead of "picking" three, I will "delete" three: both Bbs and the D Major... so there! If anyone can tell me what sets these three apart, I'm all ears. Mozart's style is so...so..."homogenous"? that it's hard for me to tell which one I'm in sometimes. At least with the d minor, I know I'm in a minor SQ... but I just can't recall the little D Major or the Bbs, and I haaave been listening to them lately. I don't usually have that problem with Haydn.

Gurn Blanston

#17
August 19, 2009, 09:46:02 AM
BTW, since I neglected to log it earlier, I chose K 464, 465 and 589.... :)

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ChamberNut

#18
August 19, 2009, 09:52:11 AM
Come on, cast your votes!  The Hoffmeister needs more love!  >:(

Dr. Dread

#19
August 19, 2009, 10:03:01 AM
I can't vote. I don't know one from the other. La-dee-dah...
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