BEETHOVEN'S LATE STRING QUARTETS

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hunters23acd05-31-2002 10:02pm

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pragmatist Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 336 posts 06-01-2002 at 03:16am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Historic-budget choice The Cleveland Quartet Contemporary The Emerson String Quartet,if you order on line be careful that you only order the last five;they recorded all of them.
gregm Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,411 posts 06-01-2002 at 09:32am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete For 15-16 I recommend the Talich Quartet (Calliope CAL 9639), for 12-16 + Grand Fugue the LaSalle Quartet (DG).
detlof Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,899 posts 06-01-2002 at 04:59pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I agree with Rushton, the Vegh Quartet is superb. But then the Alban Berg Quartet on EMI is in a class of its own. They are absolute masters of ensemble playing and give especially 15 and 16 an intensity and passion, which is truly out of this world!
pls1 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 432 posts 06-01-2002 at 05:29pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete As the above recommendations My Favorite: ABQ My Wife's favorite: QI Our Alternative choices: Tokyo and Vegh Historical: Budapest
flex Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 292 posts 06-01-2002 at 09:10pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I agree, as I usually do, with Detlof. I have the Alban Berg live and studio versions of the quartets, plus parts of almost all the other quartets listed. The Alban Berg has long been one of my favorite groups for their extraordinary ensemble, and I always seem to resort to their Beethoven after listening to any of the others. I don't particularly care for the Emerson versions. The Tokyo give their best interpretations in the early Beethoven quartets, as opposed to the late ones.

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