GMG's Favo(u)rite String Quartets Poll

Started by schnittkease, October 09, 2017, 04:25:51 PM

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schnittkease

Quite possibly my favorite genre of classical music.

Lists of no more than ten, please, and ranked. Note that the final results will be weighted (so as to penalize works only supported by a few enthusiastic users).


Edit: Grosse Fuge is a separate entry unless I can be convinced otherwise.

Todd

1 - Beethoven Op 131
2 - Beethoven Op 132
3 - Beethoven Op 135
4 - Beethoven Op 130 (w/ revised ending)
5 - Beethoven Op 127
6 - Haydn Op 76/3
7 - Haydn Op 33/2
8 - Bartok Sz 91
9 - Shostakovich Op 117
10 - Schulhoff String Quartet No 1
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SymphonicAddict

I was going to mention one by composer, but I thought Bartók deserves two places:

1) Schubert No. 15, D. 887
2) Beethoven No. 15, op. 132
3) Bartók 4
4) Bartók 5
5) Janácek 2 Intimate Letters
6) Dvorák 13
7) Brahms 3
8) Casella Concerto for string quartet
9) Rubbra 2
10) Lutoslawski

Sergeant Rock

1. Schubert No.13 A minor D.804
2. Beethoven No.16 F major op.135
3. Haydn String Quartet G major op.77/1
4. Beethoven No.13 B Flat op.130 (with revised last movement)
5. Schoenberg No.2 op.10
6. Schubert No.15 G major
7. Dvorak No.12 F major "American"
8. Shostakovich No.3 F major, Op. 73
9. Ravel
10. Ives No.1
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amw

#4
1 - Beethoven Op. 130 (either version)
2 - Janáček Intimate Letters
3 - Beethoven Op. 131
4 - Beethoven Op. 132
5 - Schubert D887
6 - Bartók No. 3
7 - Beethoven Op. 74
8 - Beethoven Op. 127
9 - Beethoven Op. 135
10 - Holliger No. 1

Mandryka

#5
Beethoven 131
Ferneyhough 6
Schoenberg 4
Babbitt 4
Bartok 3
Mozart 428
Maderna quartet " in due tempi"
Nono, Fragmente stille an Diotima
Finnissy 3
Carter 4


I just saw that he wants them ranked, I'm not a ranker.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

kyjo

#6
This was stressful...would've been a lot easier if it was top 15! In (some sort of) order:

Debussy
Dvorak 13
Grieg 1
Shostakovich 8
Ravel
Ginastera 1
Arensky 2
Smetana 1
Borodin 1
Hindemith 3
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

kyjo

#7
Quote from: SymphonicAddict on October 09, 2017, 07:21:44 PM
I was going to mention one by composer, but I thought Bartók deserves two places:

1) Schubert No. 15, D. 887
2) Beethoven No. 15, op. 132
3) Bartók 4
4) Bartók 5
5) Janácek 2 Intimate Letters
6) Dvorák 13
7) Brahms 3
8) Casella Concerto for string quartet
9) Rubbra 2
10) Lutoslawski

Great list with which could've very well been my own. I feel especially bad for excluding the Beethoven and Schubert 15ths from my list :-[ I need to check out the Casella and Lutosławski ones.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Trout

1. Bartók 4
2. Beethoven - Grosse Fuge
3. Reich - Different Trains
4. Crumb - Black Angels
5. Webern - Five Movements, op. 5
6. Rochberg 3
7. Schnittke 2
8. Haas, GF 7
9. Crawford Seeger (1931)
10. Lachenmann - Gran Torso

Spineur

Beethoven Op. 131
Schubert D 887
Samuel Barber Op 11
Mozart no 19 K465 (Dissonnant)
Debussy
Janacek no 2 Intimate letters
Mendelssohn Op 13
Brahms A minor Op 51
Haydn D minor no 61 "the fifth" Op 76 no 2
Ravel

Brian

#10
1. Beethoven Op. 127
2. Beethoven Op. 59 No. 3
3. Dvorak No. 13 (Op. 106)
4. Beethoven Op. 95
5. Beethoven Op. 18 No. 6
6. Ravel
7. Haydn Op. 76 No. 4 "Sunrise"
8. Arensky No. 2 with two cellos
9. Beethoven Op. 59 No. 1
10. Janacek No. 1

Apologies to Debussy, Smetana, Shostakovich, Mozart, Borodin, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Peteris Vasks, all of whom I would have loved to include.

Archaic Torso of Apollo

1. Beethoven Op. 59/1
2. Beethoven Op. 59/3
3. Bartok #4
4. DSCH #9
5. Carter #1
6. Lutoslawski
7. Mozart K. 421
8. DSCH #15
9. Beethoven Op. 132
10. Ives #2

I only ranked them because I had to - tomorrow's ranking may be different!
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bwv 1080

Carter 3
Bartok 4
Schnittke 3
Beethoven op 130
Schumann Am
Ferneyhough 6
Mozart K428
Wolpe
Shostokovich 8
Schoenberg 3

James

Bartók 6
Bartók 5
Bartók 4
Bartók 3
Bartók 2
Bartók 1
Ligeti 2
Ligeti 1
Ravel
Fauré
Action is the only truth

Parsifal

#14
In no particular order

Beethoven Op 130
Beethoven Op 132
Beethoven Op 131
Mozart No 23 K590
Mozart No 18 K464
Bartok String Quartet No 4
Honegger String Quartet No 2
Janacek String Quartet Intimate Letters
Shostakovich String Quartet No X (can't remember which I like best)
Brahms String Quartet No 3

A shame Schubert got squeezed out, and I would have put Beethoven's Op 127, except I couldn't imagine being without the German Dance in Op 130

ComposerOfAvantGarde

There are too many to think of at the moment although tentatively I'll mention Ferneyhough's 3rd, 5th and 6th numbered quartets, the sonatas for string quartet and Dum Transisset, Lachenmann's Gran Torso, some Czernowin and Fuentes as well but I am unable yet to decide what I like the most.

I'll listen to some more and then get back to this thread..............................

Monsieur Croche

Quote from: SymphonicAddict on October 09, 2017, 07:21:44 PM
8) A;fredp Casella ~ Concerto for string quartet, op.40.

A very fine piece.  Happy to see it getting both love and a bit of promotion!

There is a very exciting-satisfying string orchestra arrangement / version
Concerto per quartetto d'archi op.40b (1923/1924) by Erwin Stein, 1927

Stein's String Orchestra arrangement:
1st Movement.
https://www.youtube.com/v/dHGCEY9BAI0
2nd - 4th movements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRqgMZECLZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz6YT4g7DFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQhR4TNt_Ts
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aesthetic

The following bewildering list must suffice:

1. Schubert: No. 15, D. 887
2. Beethoven: No. 10, "Harp"
3. Smetana: No. 1
4. Beethoven: No. 15
5. Janáček: No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
6. Mendelssohn: No. 6
7. Schumann: No. 2
8. Bartok: No. 5
9. Dvořák: No. 9
10. Glass: No. 3, "Mishima"

kyjo

Quote from: aesthetic on October 11, 2017, 08:19:16 AM
9. Dvořák: No. 9

Great choice - very underrated piece. The slow movement is particularly moving.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

SymphonicAddict

Quote from: Monsieur Croche on October 10, 2017, 08:13:34 PM
A very fine piece.  Happy to see it getting both love and a bit of promotion!

There is a very exciting-satisfying string orchestra arrangement / version
Concerto per quartetto d'archi op.40b (1923/1924) by Erwin Stein, 1927

Stein's String Orchestra arrangement:
1st Movement.
https://www.youtube.com/v/dHGCEY9BAI0
2nd - 4th movements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRqgMZECLZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz6YT4g7DFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQhR4TNt_Ts

I have both versions, and yes, I completely agree. I couldn't leave it out. It made a great impression on me.