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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:55 pm
by Seán
Jared wrote:
If however, I was to now recommend ONE disk of SQs for an entry level, then I'd probably go for this one:
near flawless delivery of some of the finest SQs ever written... please try it for size, and let us know what you think... :-)
You, young sir, have exquisite taste.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:56 pm
by Seán
fergus wrote:Diapason wrote:I can't get on board with string quartets, but it's probably lack of exposure. Where should I start if I want to be convinced?
Where it all started....Haydn.
Wrong! Good try though, Schubert actually. ;)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:57 pm
by fergus
Double Dvorak....
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:58 pm
by Seán
fergus wrote:Double Dvorak....
Oh, that looks very interesting indeed.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:59 pm
by Seán
fergus wrote:
I expect that that is a marvellous recording.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:02 pm
by fergus
Seán wrote:fergus wrote:Diapason wrote:I can't get on board with string quartets, but it's probably lack of exposure. Where should I start if I want to be convinced?
Where it all started....Haydn.
Wrong! Good try though, Schubert actually. ;)
I forgot for a moment that he is a capable organist so if we really want to blow his mind perhaps we should send him to the late Beethoven quartets, particularly the Op. 133 Grosse Fugue!!!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:02 pm
by Jared
Seán wrote:fergus wrote:Diapason wrote:I can't get on board with string quartets, but it's probably lack of exposure. Where should I start if I want to be convinced?
Where it all started....Haydn.
Wrong! Good try though, Schubert actually. ;)
yes, the Haydn SQs are utterly magnificent, but they are a labour of love, which took me an entire summer.... all 22 disks of them. Personally, I wouldn't start with the Haydn SQs, because someone completely new to the form, they would probably come across a bit 'samey'. Although I am in no way initiated into these things, I would say the Haydn's are 'Connoisseur's SQs.... definitely the Mozart 'Haydn' SQs before the Haydn ones... imho.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:04 pm
by fergus
Seán wrote:fergus wrote:
I expect that that is a marvellous recording.
They are both very good Seán but the Kubelik is particularly excellent.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:04 pm
by Jared
fergus wrote: perhaps we should send him to the late Beethoven quartets, particularly the Op. 133 Grosse Fugue!!!
Now Mr Fergus, I think you're just being unkind... ;-)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:06 pm
by Seán
Jared wrote:fergus wrote:Diapason wrote:I can't get on board with string quartets, but it's probably lack of exposure. Where should I start if I want to be convinced?
Where it all started....Haydn.
yes,
the Haydn SQs are utterly magnificent, but they are a labour of love, which took me an entire summer.... all 22 disks of them.
Agreed
Personally, I wouldn't start with the Haydn SQs, because someone completely new to the form, they would probably come across a bit 'samey'. Although I am in no way initiated into these things, I would say the Haydn's are 'Connoisseur's SQs.... definitely the Mozart 'Haydn' SQs before the Haydn ones... imho.
Probably Mozart before Haydn, not sure though, but I would definitely select Death and the Maiden before all else, for a newbie that is, it is glorious music.