Friday 11 March 2005

Yesterday evening it was the Op 74 quartet by Beethoven (Takacs Quartet). I really think that the later 10 Beethoven string quartets (plus the Grosse Fuga) should always be beside my CD player. The music in the quartets is so varied, so full of light and shade, so daring, so vibrant. The 10 quartets may only occupy six hours or so of music; but they are most certainly among the greatest music ever written.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Say, Harry. As you said you are fan of Luiggi's SQ, I can send you some weird versions: The Fine Arts, Capet,Schneiderhan, Borodin, Beethoven (!) Juilliard,Yale, Pascal (!) one by the 0istrakh's and one by the Amar-Hindemith SQ.
Cheers.Carlos

Anonymous said...

there is some recording of a single quartett with Yulian Sitkovetzky.