Who wrote your favorite Romantic period SQ?

[Wakefield]

Schumann Op. 41 Nº1, as large as the life itself, almost symphonic.

[Cato]

Borodin should be listed: to be sure, out of the choices Dvorak is a winner, but Tchaikovsky should not be underestimated.

[TheGSMoeller]

Schumann Op. 41 Nº1, as large as the life itself, almost symphonic.

Listening to this one for the first time (it's a sin, I know), but I think you're on to something. Spectacular to say the least.
Any favorite recordings, Gordo? I need to put one in my cart pronto.

[bwv 1080]

That is the Am SQ I mentioned in the OP.  the Eroica Quartet has a very nice recording

[Wakefield]

Listening to this one for the first time (it's a sin, I know), but I think you're on to something. Spectacular to say the least.
Any favorite recordings, Gordo? I need to put one in my cart pronto.

Of course:

MI: the Melos Quartet. An astonishing performance. You get Brahms as a bonus (I'm joking, I'm a devoted Brahmsian):

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PI: the superb performance by the Kuijken Quartet:

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[Ken B]

Listening to this one for the first time

Hey Greg, you might also look at Beethoven; he wrote quartets.

[TheGSMoeller]

That is the Am SQ I mentioned in the OP.  the Eroica Quartet has a very nice recording

I didn't even realize there were 3 from the Op.41. 
Thanks for the rec, bmv. 

[TheGSMoeller]

Hey Greg, you might also look at Beethoven; he wrote quartets.

I'm too busy listening to Strauss tone poems. But if I have a free minute, I'll sample a few. 

[Brahmsian]

I didn't even realize there were 3 from the Op.41. 
Thanks for the rec, bmv. 

Hey Greg, my favourite is the 3rd in A major from Op. 41.  One of my very favourite movements in all string quartets is that 2nd movement Assai Agitato - Un Poco Adagio - Tempo Risoluto

Fine Arts Quartet on Naxos is an excellent recording.  So is the St. Lawrence SQ.

[TheGSMoeller]

Hey Greg, my favourite is the 3rd in A major from Op. 41.  One of my very favourite movements in all string quartets is that 2nd movement Assai Agitato - Un Poco Adagio - Tempo Risoluto

Fine Arts Quartet on Naxos is an excellent recording.  So is the St. Lawrence SQ.

Hey, Ray! Thank you for the recs! 

Me thinks a straight listen of all three is in order. 

[bwv 1080]

Hey Greg, my favourite is the 3rd in A major from Op. 41.  One of my very favourite movements in all string quartets is that 2nd movement Assai Agitato - Un Poco Adagio - Tempo Risoluto

Fine Arts Quartet on Naxos is an excellent recording.  So is the St. Lawrence SQ.

That is my 2nd favorite romantic SQ, the 4th movement is one of the best things Schumann wrote

[Moonfish]

Blah blah blah Schubert blah blah blah blah transitional blah!  Blah?     

[DavidW]

Blah blah blah Schubert blah blah blah blah transitional blah!  Blah?     

Schubert's late quartets are definitely romantic.  Polls are stupid anyway that is why they are tucked away out of sight in the polling station.  Let's just declare Schubert the winner no matter what the OP thinks!

[mn dave]

Schubert's late quartets are definitely romantic.  Polls are stupid anyway that is why they are tucked away out of sight in the polling station.  Let's just declare Schubert the winner no matter what the OP thinks!

The poll may be be "stupid" but it generates discussion...usually. And that's why we're here. I think.

[DavidW]

The poll may be be "stupid" but it generates discussion...usually. And that's why we're here. I think.

We don't need a poll to generate discussion, you can just ask the question leave it at that.  Really it works.

[mn dave]

We don't need a poll to generate discussion, you can just ask the question leave it at that.  Really it works.

Nah, that's boring.

[bwv 1080]

Schubert's late quartets are definitely romantic.  Polls are stupid anyway that is why they are tucked away out of sight in the polling station.  Let's just declare Schubert the winner no matter what the OP thinks!

Sez you, we need another poll to settle this

[mn dave]

I like that period: late classical/early romantic. Should do a thread on that!

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Brahms op. 67! Although Franck's D major quartet comes extremely close...

// And if you actually count Beethoven's late quartets as romantic (such as I do) there would be no question about the winner: op. 131. I recall that Beethoven himself called it best work he had ever written, at least best of his late quartets.

[Jo498]

If Schubert was in, I'd go for D 887.
Otherwise it is a tough choice between Dvorak's last two (opp. 105 and 106), Schumann's 1st (and maybe third), Brahms a minor, Mendelssohn's a minor and f minor. Tchaikovsky's and Borodin's are also very good, but would probably not make my last 5. I also like Grieg's (a composer I am not so fond of otherwise). Of the french (Saint Saens, Chausson, Franck), I think their chamber music with piano is superior to their quartets, but I do not know them as well as ones from the German tradition.