Our Summer BaL, Number 53: Schubert's Last String Quartets

[BBMmk2]

This:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Quartet-Dissonances-Schubert-Rosamunde/dp/B005H8APS2/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1473154166&sr=1-5&keywords=chiaroscuro+quartet

has a very fine performance of the 'Rosamunde' but appears only to be available now at silly prices.

Will have a peruse! :)

[Bryn]

This:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Quartet-Dissonances-Schubert-Rosamunde/dp/B005H8APS2/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1473154166&sr=1-5&keywords=chiaroscuro+quartet

has a very fine performance of the 'Rosamunde' but appears only to be available now at silly prices.

Crazy prices indeed. I paid but £8.50 a couple of years ago. Presto Classical has it listed (though currently out of stock) for around £12 for the disc, or from £7.99 for downloads.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Apart%25C3%25A9/AP051



[It's also available from QOBUZ, with an even higher resolution option.]

[Keraulophone]

Not quite up to Italian Quartet quality (except the last two listed) but worth a free listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rougrFY0r5Y - Belcea SQ live D877 (their EMI recording, [+D810+956] was a finalist in the 2010 Gramophone Awards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdayisyIiM - Alban Berg SQ live D810
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGO_qd4PTh4 - Sini Simonen, Benjamin Bowman, Steven Dann, Richard Lester (live at Esbjerg Chamber Mus Fest 2013) D804
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-7dacohIdg - Melos SQ (DG studio rec) D703 & D887

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1V_L30DpTI - Hungarian SQ D887 i (wonderful)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJqciUiG34 - ditto ii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3tmFhrOgNk - Isaac Stern, Alexander Schneider, Milton Katims, Pablo Casals, Paul Tortelier (Prades, 1952) Quintet D956 (a classic)

[Barbirollians]

The classic old VP Quartet of Death and the Maiden coupled with Curzon's Trout recording
The Mosiaques coupling RB refers to above
QI in the Death and the Maiden
Belcea in Rosamunde and Quarttetsatz

and Pavel Haas again in D and the M .

All excellent IMO .

[vinteuil]

.... the Complete Quartets in a 9CD box from the Leipziger Streichquartett.

... thank you for this : I think this looks like a must-buy!

I have enjoyed -

Festetics in D46, D804
Mosaiques in D87, D804
Italians in D703, D804, D810, D887
Hungarians in D804, D810, D887
Busch in D112, D810, D887
Chilingirians in D804, D810, D887

Also Melos in D703, D804, D810, D887
and Amadeus in D D112, D87, D804, D810, D887

and the Heutlings in D46, D94, D112, D173, D87, D353, D703.

A complete HIPP set wd be marvellous - I remember the delight when the Eroica brought out the Mendelssohn quartets and the Schumann op 41

[Thropplenoggin]

... thank you for this : I think this looks like a must-buy!


A complete HIPP set wd be marvellous - I remember the delight when the Eroica brought out the Mendelssohn quartets and the Schumann op 41

It looks like Quatuor Terpsycordes might be for you and FHG: HIPP accounts of D.887 and D.703: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schubert-St...s=terpyscordes

and D&TM and Rosamunde: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schubert-To...s=terpyscordes

[Beef Oven!]

The Emersons hit the spot for me.

[pastoralguy]

Time to resurrect this thread, I think.

[Barbirollians]

I have been mightily impressed by the Belcea set .