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In Reply to: RE: The Amadeus and Cleveland had post-2000 performances? posted by rbolaw on November 14, 2016 at 06:20:35
Actually, what I was trying to get at was performances/recordings of the Bartok Quartets which have been released since 2000, such as:
. . . and so on. . .
Actually, these recordings date back to only 2010 (and these aren't all of them!). Amazing, isn't it? Who says classical music is declining these days? ;-)
Anyway, a couple of these recordings have received (perhaps) extravagant claims from Amazon posters to the effect that one or another of them is/are the very BEST recording(s) of the particular Bartok Quartet(s) ever issued. Now granted, some of these posters my be naive amateurs, with little breadth of experience listening to the music. But OTOH, if I were making the sweeping claim that, in the Bartok Quartets, the old Julliard Quartet stands "alone at the top of the string quartet hierarchy", I would at least try to hear some of these newer recordings before I posted. And BTW, I haven't heard ANY of these recordings myself - but, as I say, I'm not the one making the claim! ;-)
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Excellent pics- Chris.
at least that I can remember offhand. But point taken -- there are so many good string quartets now, nobody can claim to know for sure who if anyone is "top dog" at the moment, in Bartok or anything else. At least I can't.
But if any of these newer quartets stick together for 30 or 40 or more years, and leave a long and varied discography, as the older quartets I mentioned did, then maybe we will be justified in drawing some conclusions about them. If we're still alive. ;-)
That's the context in which I was praising the Juilliard. My comment about you was just kiddin', of course.
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