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What are your favorites that are available on a CD (44.1, 16) and maybe why?
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Two historical recommendations that have a magic missing from many later versions
Vegh 1952 - their best set to my ears. The opening is lonely and desolate.
Capet - lyrical and old-style, slides and minimum vibratoGoing more modern I have some versions I like on my hard disc but somehow the artist details have been deleted so I'm trying to trace them! Not easy when you just have the music and the timings.
I don't want bulges, added 'passion' or any unrequired energy in this work. Plain, simple, and slow in the slow passages. It's all in the music.
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...called 'A Late Quartet'. Stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Katherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Mark Ivaner, and Imogen Poots. A movie for adults and not pimple-faced teenyboppers about people, their problems, and music.
HIGHLY recommended.
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Tin-eared audiofool, lover of large-scale Classical and film music and movies, and amateur fotografer.
William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
Beloved."
I couldn't believe Beethoven penned something so R. Straussian. It turned out to be the orchestrated version of the Quartet, conducted by Solti.
I used to own Bernstein's with the VPO on DGG, Live.
It's maximum genius---looking both 100 years to the future (even a little Webern?) and 100 years to the past.
Actually, that's what got me started. I saw it night before last.
It just took me a while to find the recent thread on this.
. . . which has ever been made - LOL! So I will add to the list:Of these, I'd probably reach for the Prazak Praga recording myself right now, although I feel that the others are also excellent (as well as some of the other recordings which have been recommended so far on this thread).
- Hollywood Quartet (mono only)
- Smetana Quartet (the earlier analogue Supraphon recording, not the Denon digital remake - this rule applies only to the Late Quartets - the digital recordings of the Early and Middle Quartets are fine*)
- Prazak (either their early digital one on Nuova Era, or the later Praga one - of the latter, No. 14 was originally released as a single CD, but when the singles of all the quartets were collected and released as a set, it came out as an SACD box - I mention this because you specifically said you were not interested in SACD, so look for the single on CD
- Bartok Quartet
*I now see however that Supraphon has reissued the Denon digital recording too. Confusing!
Couldn't afford the original UK Capitols, but I found their Op 131 to be a bit too straight-forward, compared to the Italian's.
I don't know the other Quartets well enough to judge the rest.
But within that approach, they do things like voicing of chordal textures superbly IMHO (e.g., the very opening of Op. 127). I like(d) the Italians too, but it's been a long time since I heard those recordings, and I don't own them at present.
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Tokyo/RCA: amazing playing, very emotional.
Quartetto Italiano/Philips: more romantic, slower. Nice change from aggressive groups.
Alban Berg/EMI are very good, too.
And don't forget the orchestrated version, Leonard Bernstein/Vienna/DG
My go to is probably still the Vegh quartet. I learned the piece from the Alban Berg quartet.
I've tried these late quartets over the years and have several sets. Each has something going for it. The Quartetto Italiano, Yale, and Budapest are all very fine, each in it's way. There are also the Busch Quartet recordings from the thirties.
I have many of the Busch Quartets, and Ensembles recordings, but dont' remember having #14. Old Busch recordings are very special, if you can deal with less than perfect sound. The Busch Ensembles recordings of Bach Brandenburgs and Suites and Handel Op.6 are among my all time favorite recordings.
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I believe I will. Which performers, though?
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Cypress Quartet. There was a discussion about the merits of the various recordings of the Beethoven String Quartets not long ago.
I wonder how it sounds on 44.1/16? I listen only using NOS Dacs (CDs and digital files), and don't stream music, anyway.
It's available on CD (which is how I purchased it and loaded it onto my computer): I also listen to 16/44.1. This CD is superbly recorded (at Lucas's Skywalker Sound): the best I've heard in the Beethoven Qts. And I've heard a lot.I like the Quartetto Italiano, Tokyo, and Berg a great deal. I prefer the Cypress overall.
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$7.88 on Amazon Prime
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Link below:
for "Beethoven String Quartets Cypress", the first listing that comes up is at $41 new and $30 used. Your link, from Prime, is further down the page. FWIR, the Prime listing - if there is one - is usually first on the page.
Live and learn. Thanks.
But if followed it through and got a CD in my cart, ready to ship Prime for just $7+
Now they seem to have fixed it.
Or as they said when I put it in my cart to see if it was real, only two left and now they are gone? :-(
The whole Late Qts. set is available on CD on Amazon for $41 ($30 used). Or is this a hi-rez download from somewhere?
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