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10 String Quartets - a list of favourites (à la Salymap)
I like a lot of 3rd Quartets, so I'm just going to list my current 10 favourite String Quartets in no particular order.
1 Beethoven: No 13 op130 (with the Grosse Fugue finale)
2 Mendelssohn: No 6 in F minor op80
3 Walton: Quartet in A minor
4 Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No 2 in A minor
5 Britten: String Quartet No 3
6 Martinu: String Quartet No 5
7 Harris: String Quartet No 3
8 Piston: String Quartet No 3
9 Diamond: String Quartet No 3
10 Borodin: String Quartet No 2
A typically inspired and inspiring selection, SC, all accompanied by the unmistakable sound of rules being broken.
I think antongould will disqualify most of these - I wonder if people arqued in viva voce exams that the rules were wrong and should be changed. No discipline these days Throppple, have they ?
I think antongould will disqualify most of these - I wonder if people arqued in viva voce exams that the rules were wrong and should be changed. No discipline these days Throppple, have they ?
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
1.Stanford no 1
2.Vaughan Williams no 2
3. Britten no 3
4. Rubbra no 4
5. Bartok no 5
6. Mendelssohn no 6
7. Shostakovich no 7
8. Schubert no 15 D887 (15-8+8-7=8).
9. Mozart no 14 K387 (1+4+3+8-7=9)
10. Beethoven no 14 op 131(1+4+1+3+1)
1.Stanford no 1
2.Vaughan Williams no 2
3. Britten no 3
4. Rubbra no 4
5. Bartok no 5
6. Mendelssohn no 6
7. Shostakovich no 7
8. Schubert no 15 D887 (15-8+8-7=8).
9. Mozart no 14 K387 (1+4+3+8-7=9)
10. Beethoven no 14 op 131(1+4+1+3+1)
No room for Haydn, Arnold,Alwyn......
Excellent. Despite having mentioned Britten in another thread, I quite forgot Britten in my own list. Too new to me, I guess. No. 3 does seem to have a lot of supporters on For3.
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