The Greatest String Quartets

Started by snyprrr, August 20, 2009, 08:52:55 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Print
Go Down Pages1 2 3 4
User actions

snyprrr

August 20, 2009, 08:52:55 AM Last Edit: August 22, 2009, 01:46:52 AM by snyprrr
SQs 101:

Haydn Op.76/2 "Fifths"
Haydn Op.77 1-2

Mozart "Dissonance" Quartet

Beethoven Op.132, Op.130, Op.59, Op.74

Debussy/Ravel (always together!)

Janacek 1-2

Shostakovich No.6, No.7, No.8, No.10, No.15

Faure (only one)

MODERN/SCARY:

Ligeti No.2

Xenakis Tetras

VoxBox series 1950-1970



This is obviously only, only for the newbie, and obviously, obviously this is almost a non-starter. Let's see if it goes!

EDIT:

Sibelius "Voces Intimae"

Bartok No.3

Villa-Lobos No.5

Prokofiev 1-2

DavidW

#1
August 20, 2009, 08:54:36 AM
Bartok needs to be on that list. :)

Franco

#2
August 20, 2009, 09:04:05 AM
As well as Elliott Carter.

ChamberNut

#3
August 20, 2009, 09:20:14 AM
Verdi's quartet is a gem.   Yes, Verdi!  :o

ChamberNut

#4
August 20, 2009, 09:23:27 AM
Late Schubert and Late Dvorak SQs

Sorry Snyprrr.....but they are.  :)

offbeat

#5
August 20, 2009, 01:46:01 PM
Schoenbergs 4 Quartets should be included imo - so intense

karlhenning

#6
August 20, 2009, 03:41:41 PM
Quote from: ChamberNut on August 20, 2009, 09:20:14 AM
Verdi's quartet is a gem.   Yes, Verdi!  :o

I've heard it performed live.

DFO

#8
August 20, 2009, 05:12:06 PM
Il Quartetto Italiano had a splendid recording of Verdi's  :D

ChamberNut

#9
August 20, 2009, 05:20:03 PM
Quote from: DFO on August 20, 2009, 05:12:06 PM
Il Quartetto Italiano had a splendid recording of Verdi's  :D

Love the Italiano Quartet!  I should seek it out.  :)

Franco

#10
August 20, 2009, 06:03:01 PM
Quote from: offbeat on August 20, 2009, 01:46:01 PM
Schoenbergs 4 Quartets should be included imo - so intense

QFT

Tapkaara

#11
August 20, 2009, 06:14:56 PM
Is anyone familiar with Sibelius's String Quartet "Voces intimae?"

ChamberNut

#12
August 20, 2009, 06:44:22 PM
Quote from: Tapkaara on August 20, 2009, 06:14:56 PM
Is anyone familiar with Sibelius's String Quartet "Voces intimae?"

Oh yes, indeed!  A most excellent work!  :)

ChamberNut

#13
August 20, 2009, 06:44:50 PM
Grieg's SQ is another one of my favorites.  Top 5

DFO

#14
August 21, 2009, 03:45:58 AM
The second unfinished is IMHO even better.

ChamberNut

#15
August 21, 2009, 04:32:20 AM
Quote from: DFO on August 21, 2009, 03:45:58 AM
The second unfinished is IMHO even better.

Which composer?

DFO

#16
August 21, 2009, 04:42:12 AM
Grieg of course.  ::)

karlhenning

#17
August 21, 2009, 04:43:46 AM
Quote from: Tapkaara on August 20, 2009, 06:14:56 PM
Is anyone familiar with Sibelius's String Quartet "Voces intimae?"

I am not, but I sure ought to be.

ChamberNut

#18
August 21, 2009, 04:55:47 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 21, 2009, 04:43:46 AM
I am not, but I sure ought to be.

:o At once!  8)  I can recommend the Emerson SQ recording, which includes the Grieg quartet as well.

DFO

#19
August 21, 2009, 06:36:48 AM
For the combination Grieg-Sibelius (plus Wolf's Italian Serenade),
I recommend the old Budapest (in the 30s.) on a Biddulph CD. Excellent recordings IMHO.
About Grieg, there's an Olympia with his first and second (completed
with 2  final movements by Julius Rontgen) plus a fugue for SQ and an Andante for piano trio by the Raphael SQ.
:D
Print
Go Up Pages1 2 3 4
User actions