In Reply to: Sure he did - the String Quartets! [nt] ;-) posted by Chris from Lafayette on June 9, 2017 at 11:30:54:
Chris, bite your tongue, you foul man, you ;-) I am a die hard Bartok fan and believe his String Quartets are the finest (sans Beeethoven possibly). Just my amateur opinion. Ranking my favorite SQ composers:
1. Bartok
2. Shostakovich (sorry again, Chris)
3. Schnittke
4. Beethoven
Regarding Bartok's SQ, I enjoy the Vegh, Tokyo and Hungarian. Just my 2 cents.
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- RE: Sure he did - the String Quartets! [nt] ;-) - banpuku 15:00:47 06/09/17 (19)
- Chris just isn't ready for Bartok. Remember: Solti didn't attempt to record Shostakovich until the end of his - jdaniel@jps.net 18:42:36 06/09/17 (18)
- Not so - I like a lot of Bartok - Chris from Lafayette 21:01:44 06/09/17 (17)
- Prokofiev's 2nd what? Symphony, Quartet or PC? Sorry but the rhythmic imagination, notice I didn't say - jdaniel@jps.net 21:30:53 06/09/17 (16)
- The flash drive has arrived! - Won't be able to listen until Monday - Chris from Lafayette 21:43:09 06/09/17 (15)
- Good! Was worried. Take your time. Just some promises before posting about it: - jdaniel@jps.net 07:58:07 06/10/17 (6)
- I just checked the contents of the USB thumb drive - Chris from Lafayette 00:20:02 06/12/17 (4)
- Comments are welcome! Of course, it's a given that they're not 5-channel. : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 08:05:06 06/12/17 (3)
- OK - here goes - Chris from Lafayette 20:06:31 06/13/17 (2)
- RE: OK - here goes - banpuku 08:55:43 06/14/17 (0)
- Awesome, glad you enjoyed, the .49 cents was worth it. : ) - jdaniel@jps.net 20:44:51 06/13/17 (0)
- Jeez - I've got to plow through that other stuff too??? - Chris from Lafayette 09:48:28 06/10/17 (0)
- RE: The flash drive has arrived! - Won't be able to listen until Monday - banpuku 05:00:16 06/10/17 (7)
- Hmm. . . I guess I've grown tired of all these composers who were always "breaking barriers" - Chris from Lafayette 09:46:31 06/10/17 (5)
- Breaking Barriers - banpuku 10:36:10 06/10/17 (2)
- That's very interesting - and who am I to say you're wrong? - Chris from Lafayette 20:57:11 06/10/17 (0)
- RE: Breaking Barriers - pbarach 13:04:55 06/10/17 (0)
- You just haven't heard them persuasively performed. : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 10:03:03 06/10/17 (1)
- Not persuasive for me anyway - although I have heard a fair number of performances [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 21:00:34 06/10/17 (0)
- Thank you, could not have said it better, though I hate to look at Prokofiev and Bartok as competing. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 07:59:19 06/10/17 (0)