10 String Quartets - a list of favourites (à la Salymap)

[Thropplenoggin]

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.

[salymap]

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 ?

[Thropplenoggin]

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 my cats are more disciplined, Saly.

[antongould]

So, sorry all but Beethoven 132 + 133 = 6 and 7?

[Nick Armstrong]

So, sorry all but Beethoven 132 + 133 = 6 and 7?

Mornington Crescent!!

[Thropplenoggin]

So, sorry all but Beethoven 132 + 133 = 6 and 7?

They have numbers: No. 15 (6), 13 (4).

[EdgeleyRob]

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......

[Thropplenoggin]

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.

[aeolium]

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)

Ingenious, ER

I like your choices, but couldn't do without Haydn...

[EdgeleyRob]

Ingenious, ER

I like your choices, but couldn't do without Haydn...

I feel bad about it too but I simply must have the 10 on my list.

[antongould]

They have numbers: No. 15 (6), 13 (4).

Understood all over it like a rash as Lady Sidcup would say.....

[antongould]

Tchaikovsky 1
Prokofiev 2
Ravel Wild Card
Schubert 13
Beethoven 14
Beethoven 15
Mozart 7
Shostakovich 8
Grieg Op 27
Debussy Op 10

[Thropplenoggin]

Tchaikovsky 1
Prokofiev 2
Ravel Wild Card
Schubert 13
Beethoven 14
Beethoven 15
Mozart 7
Shostakovich 8
Grieg Op 27
Debussy Op 10

Very elegantly done. Saly did warn me you were something of a list supremo.

[gamba]

I would only want Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven - you can keep the rest!

[doversoul1]

I would only want Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven - you can keep the rest!

Oh, but what about Boccherini?

Very good see you. I hope you are bearing up to this cold weather.