Your Top 9 String Quartets

[TheGSMoeller]

random order...

Shostakovich: No. 15
Schubert: No. 14 "Death and the Maiden"
Glass: No. 4 "Buczak"
Haydn: No. 23, Op. 20
Haydn: No. 30, Op. 33, "The Joke"
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ
Prokofiev: No. 1
Prokofiev: No 2
Britten: No. 3

[Conor71]

Beethoven, Op. 130
Beethoven, Op. 132
Mozart, "Hoffmeister"
Schubert, "Rosamunde"
Borodin No. 2
Tchaikovsky No. 1
Haydn, "Emperor"
Shostakovich No. 8
Villa-Lobos No. 4

[Dax]

Bartok 4
Cage
van Dieren 1
Janacek 1
Leifs 2
Lutoslawski
Ravel
Skalkottas 4
Szymanowski 2

[The new erato]

Bartok 3
Shostakovich 13
Bloch 1
Britten 3
Beethoven op 127
Beethoven op 131
Beethoven op 130
Schubert G Major
Mozart Dissonance
Rosenberg 4

[starrynight]

Nice to see Op127 listed, I think it gets underrated compared to some like op132 or op131.  Beethoven's Op18/3 gets underrated I think, it's not that ambitious but so what?  It's strong and consistent.

[The new erato]

Beethoven's Op18/3 gets underrated I think, it's not that ambitious but so what?  It's strong and consistent.

The first quartet in the cycle to give inklings of what's to come.

[TheGSMoeller]

random order...

Shostakovich: No. 15
Schubert: No. 14 "Death and the Maiden"
Glass: No. 4 "Buczak"
Haydn: No. 23, Op. 20
Haydn: No. 30, Op. 33, "The Joke"
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ
Prokofiev: No. 1
Prokofiev: No 2
Britten: No. 3

Strange, almost a year ago today I posted this, just happened to stumble upon it searching for Haydn SQ threads. Interesting to see how my tastes have changed in the past year. Some minor changes here and there, but could still love with this.

Biggest omission is Berg's Lyric Suite, not sure why it wasn't included in the first place.

[The new erato]

Some minor changes here and there, but could still love with this.

So that's what you are using string quartets for?

[TheGSMoeller]

So that's what you are using string quartets for?

Oops, uuhhh...live! I meant "live" with, yeah, that's the ticket.   



(Gotta move that "O" from the "I" on the keyboard so I don't give away my string quartet fetish again)

[The new erato]

 

[Karl Henning]

(Gotta move that "O" from the "I" on the keyboard so I don't give away my string quartet fetish again)

Easier to design a new key/fingering system for the saxophone than to re-cast the typewriter keyboard ; )

[Karl Henning]

Although there is the inevitable joke: if a sax player is blowing an instrument with a fingering system he's unfamiliar with . . . how do you tell? . . .

[Karl Henning]

Thread duty (it cannot be all quips and sentences and paper bullets of the brain, now, can it?)

No particular order:

(Just for arbitrary fun, keeping myself to one per composer)

1. Hindemith № 5, Op.32
2. Schoenberg № 5, Op.37
3. Holmboe  № 17 « Mattinata », Op.152
4. Wuorinen № 4
5. Shostakovich № 13 in b^b minor, Op.138
6. Bartók № 5
7. Brahms № 2 in a minor, Op.51 № 2
8. Haydn Op.50 № 4 in f# minor
9. Beethoven Op.131 in c# minor Op.131

Hated leaving Mozart off that list . . . .

[The new erato]

Nice to see Hindemith represented (I like his quartets a lot) - and no 13 is my favorite by Shostakovich as well.

[not edward]

Off the top of my head, in alphabetical order:

Bartok 3, 4
Beethoven opp 130, 131
Carter 1
Haydn op 77/1
Schoenberg 2
Schubert 15

That leaves one spot in which to insert a multitude of Beethoven and Haydn, both Janacek, DSCH 12/13, Nono's Fragment-Stille, an Diotima and a host of others.

[Klaze]

Janacek 1
Janacek 2
Smetana 1
Smetana 2
Ravel
Bartok 4
Haydn Op.76/2
Beethoven Op.131
and.....Schumann 1 (yes)

[Todd]

131
132
135
127
130
Haydn 76/3
Dvorak Op 51
Bartok 4
DSCH 9

[Carolus]

Smetana 1&2
Alf Hurum
Tchaikovsky 1&3
Borodin 1&2
Franck
Faure

[Brian]

The living:
Stanislaw Czarnecki - No. 2
Aaron Jay Kernis - Nos. 1 and 2
Peteris Vasks - No. 2
Philip Glass - No. 4
Gabriela Lena Frank - Quijotadas
William Bolcom - Three Rags

The dead:
Dvorak No. 13 (Op 106)
Beethoven Opp 59/3, 95, 127
Borodin No. 2
Arensky No. 2 (scored for violin, viola, two cellos)
Prokofiev No. 2
Ravel
Shostakovich No. 8

[kyjo]

Shostakovich 8
Borodin 2
Ravel
Debussy
Bloch 1
Szymanowski 2 (coin toss with no. 1)
Martinu 5
Villa-Lobos 12
Dvorak 12
Miaskovsky 13
Janacek 1
Grieg
Maconchy 5
Bartok 6
Creston
Hanson
Tchaikovsky 1
Magnard
I like the Holmboe SQs a lot but can't remember which one is my favorite.

Who's counting?