Verdi's String Quartet

[Brahmsian]

I am graciously accepting any recommendations for great recordings of Verdi's string quartet.   

Something I have heard before, but I still don't have a recording of in my collection.

[Brahmsian]

[Florestan]

I have it in this box



Haven't listened to it yet.

Hope it helps. 

[Brahmsian]

I have it in this box



Haven't listened to it yet.

Hope it helps. 

Ohhhhhhhh great! I get to listen to 100 discs of my least favourite music (opera, vocal, Italian opera) just for the one measly string quartet. 

[Florestan]

Ohhhhhhhh great! I get to listen to 100 discs of my least favourite music (opera, vocal, Italian opera) just for the one measly string quartet. 

Alternatively, I can let you have that measly SQ. 

[Brahmsian]

Alternatively, I can let you have that measly SQ. 

No, you should keep it as it is a marvelous work. 

[Papy Oli]

Ohhhhhhhh great! I get to listen to 100 discs of my least favourite music (opera, vocal, Italian opera) just for the one measly string quartet. 

alternatively, you get a good door stop...

[Brahmsian]

alternatively, you get a good door stop...

Indeed! 

[Florestan]

No, you should keep it as it is a marvelous work. 

Well, vocal / operatic / Italian composers can be quite good at writing SQs. Donizetti wrote more than a dozen, all very enjoyable. Hugo Wolf's SQ is marvelous. And rumor has it that Mozart, Schubert and Schumann wrote some good ones, too. 

[Karl Henning]

I am graciously accepting any recommendations for great recordings of Verdi's string quartet.   

Something I have heard before, but I still don't have a recording of in my collection.

This won't be much help, but ... I got it as part of the Venezia String Quartet's Italian SQs album.  I got the mp3 album for $18.  While I can recommend the album, it seems Amazon is now selling the mp3 album for $99, and—much as I like the album, it ain't worth a C-note.

[Brahmsian]

This won't be much help, but ... I got it as part of the Venezia String Quartet's Italian SQs album.  I got the mp3 album for $18.  While I can recommend the album, it seems Amazon is now selling the mp3 album for $99, and—much as I like the album, it ain't worth a C-note.

Is this the 10 disc set of Italian string quartet music (by the Venice SQ)? I was actually looking at that one on ArkivMusic.

[Brian]

Only one I have ever heard is the BIS one where it is coupled with Puccini's works for string quartet. It was nice but I haven't listened in maybe a decade!

[Brahmsian]

Only one I have ever heard is the BIS one where it is coupled with Puccini's works for string quartet. It was nice but I haven't listened in maybe a decade!

Quartetto David?

[Karl Henning]

Is this the 10 disc set of Italian string quartet music (by the Venice SQ)? I was actually looking at that one on ArkivMusic.

Aye. If you find it at a price you like, snap it up, says I.

[amw]

I have two recordings: Artemis Quartet (Ars Musici) and Delmé Quartet (Hyperion). I definitely prefer the Artemis, but the Delmé may be more readily available.

[Biffo]

I have it from the Vermeer Quartet coupled with Dvorak String Quartet No 10, Op 51 (Teldec); no idea of its current availability

[Brahmsian]

I have it in this box



Haven't listened to it yet.

Hope it helps. 

It's too bad I can't seem to find a stand alone recording with the Quartetto Italiano for this piece, as they are an ensemble I have admired greatly for their Beethoven quartet recordings.

[Brahmsian]

Aye. If you find it at a price you like, snap it up, says I.

Thanks Karl, it is of interest although the price point is a little steep, especially considering that I am looking just for the Verdi (although nothing to suggest I might not love everything else in that box). I'll keep looking though, I might just get lucky.

[Brahmsian]

Thanks for your suggestions, everyone. I will post some covers on some of the recordings I am considering, which might be close to about 10, trying to whittle it down to one. 

[Brahmsian]

These are the ones I am narrowing down to (and I'm leaning towards the 10 disc Italian box set, or the Alto recording, a combination of Rafael and Britten SQ ensembles).