The String Quartet Game (Selection Thread)

[Sammy]

With the Solo Keyboard game behind us, I decided to put another entry into the GMG arena.  This game is dedicated to string quartets of any time period.  A work isn't required to have the "string quartet" title, but it must be considered in the string quartet category by Sammy.  We won't be making selections on an interactive basis; every work you submit will be a line-item in the game unless I push the reject button.

I don't have any particular number in mind except 200.  That's my maximum for game-running and would involve 10 rounds with a finale.  30 is also a very good number; I'm flexible.

Selection Rules:

1.  Feel free to make one or two selections on a daily basis. 

2.  Each selection must be of one work only:
Haydn String Quartets (6), op. 20 - Rejected.
Haydn String Quartet, op. 20/2 - Good to go.

I am going to wait a few hours before making my first two picks; I haven't settled on them yet.

So, who wants to be first?

[Mahlerian]

Question.  Is Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 (which features a soprano in two movements) allowed?

[Sammy]

Question.  Is Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 (which features a soprano in two movements) allowed?

Definitely.

[Mahlerian]

Definitely.

Thanks for the clarification.  My first two nominations:

Haydn: String Quartet in B minor Op. 33/1
Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2 in F# minor Op. 10

[SymphonicAddict]

Beethoven - String quartet No. 14
Janácek - String quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters

[GioCar]

Nono: Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor D810 "Der Tod und das Mädchen"

[Mirror Image]

Debussy: String Quartet in G minor
Ravel: String Quartet in F major

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Ferneyhough: Dum Transisset
Lachenmann: Gran Torso

[Crudblud]

Webern - Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5
Bartók - String Quartet No. 4

[ritter]

Zemlinsky - String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19
C. Halffter - Cuarteto nº 7 "Espacio de silencio"

[amw]

Mozart - String Quartet in F major K590
Haydn - String Quartet in D major Op. 76/5

[Sammy]

Selections (16):

Bartók - String Quartet no. 4, Sz 91
Beethoven - String Quartet no. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 131
Debussy - String Quartet in G minor, op. 10
Ferneyhough - Dum Transisset
C. Halffter - Cuarteto nº 7 "Espacio de silencio"
Haydn - String Quartet in B minor, op. 33/1
Haydn - String Quartet in D major, op. 76/5
Janácek - String Quartet no. 2 "Intimate letters"
Lachenmann - Gran Torso (String Quartet no. 1)
Mozart - String Quartet no. 23 in F major, K 590
Nono - Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima
Ravel - String Quartet in F major
Schoenberg - String Quartet no. 2 in F# minor, op. 10
Schubert - String Quartet no. 14 in D minor, D 810 "Der Tod und das Mädchen"
Webern - Movements for String Quartet, op. 5
Zemlinsky - String Quartet no. 3, op. 19

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Sammy, do you think you could update the Lachenmann piece to be

Lachenmann - Gran Torso (String Quartet no. 1)

because it has been referred to by either title?

[Sammy]

Schubert - String Quartet no. 15 in G major, D 887
Zemlinsky - String Quartet no. 2, op. 15

[San Antone]

Carter - String Quartet No. 2
Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C minor (Op. 110)

[Sammy]

Selections (20):

Bartók - String Quartet no. 4, Sz 91
Beethoven - String Quartet no. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 131
Carter - String Quartet no. 2
Debussy - String Quartet in G minor, op. 10
Ferneyhough - Dum Transisset
C. Halffter - Cuarteto nº 7 "Espacio de silencio"
Haydn - String Quartet in B minor, op. 33/1
Haydn - String Quartet in D major, op. 76/5
Janácek - String Quartet no. 2 "Intimate letters"
Lachenmann - Gran Torso (String Quartet no. 1)
Mozart - String Quartet no. 23 in F major, K 590
Nono - Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima
Ravel - String Quartet in F major
Schoenberg - String Quartet no. 2 in F# minor, op. 10
Schubert - String Quartet no. 14 in D minor, D 810 "Der Tod und das Mädchen"
Schubert - String Quartet no. 15 in G major, D 887
Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110
Webern - Movements for String Quartet, op. 5
Zemlinsky - String Quartet no. 2, op. 15
Zemlinsky - String Quartet no. 3, op. 19

[Sergeant Rock]

Bloch - String Quartet no. 1
Dvořák - String Quartet no. 12 in F major, op. 96 "American"

[North Star]

Dutilleux - Ainsi la nuit
Kurtág - Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op. 28

[Mirror Image]

Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
Langgaard: Rosengaardsspil (Rose Garden Play), for string quartet, BVN 153

[Mahlerian]

Berg: Lyric Suite
Mozart: String Quartet in C major K465