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  1. Identifying Classical Music
    This harmonious violin / string quartet / quintet melody was used years ago in a short jingle promoting 'Howard Stern's Master Tape Theatre'. I reckon it's borrowed from a full piece of music but have no way of identifying it, or anything that sounds even close. I'm desperate! If anybody could...
  2. Blog
    Here's a YouTube performance from the Hugo Wolf Quartet So after all of this, here's what I think. As I said, I discussed these elsewhere at length some years ago but these are my current thoughts so are likely to change. Just my views and they will no doubt be contentious for some so don't...
  3. Blog
    Again, there were plenty of interesting performances to consume and I've tried to sum my favourites up below. Shame I never got to hear the Hagen recording. I was looking forward to that one. Anyway, here goes. I hope you folks have found a recording you didn't know previously, too. Below is a...
  4. Blog
    As an intro here's a fine recording of this quartet by the talented Esme Quartet. With over 120 recordings this was never going to be an easy task and I've had to be quick, decisive and very selective. Skip-listening and prior knowledge of recordings helped a lot in the early stages and there...
  5. Blog
    After playing through all the available recordings here's my thoughts in summation.. Talich - superbly played and the brisk pacing is spot on for me in that last movement but the recording is so boxy and bass-light that I couldn't wholly recommend it. With better sound it would be at, or near...
  6. Blog
    A live performance by the Secession Quartet is below I reached the end of a week's listening to Berg and this has been quite a problematic one for me as there are so many fine accounts and I liked them for many different reasons. Someone said earlier that the 4th movement is the emotional...
  7. Solo & Chamber Music
    Just realized that Dvorák wrote 14 string quartets! :o (I particularly love his String Quintet in G, op.77) Does anyone have good recommendations to start? Top 5 Dvorak String Quartets, for example. :D
  8. Today's Composers
    I composed this piece for string quartet. I hope you like it.
  9. Classical Music Discussion
    I just finished listening to a CD of the Emerson quartet playing Mozart's Hunt and Dissonance quartets. I composed a comment for my CD database, "pleasantly homogenous in all movements." Might this be a known trait of the Emerson quartet? Do other major quartets have distinguishing traits? If...
  10. Solo & Chamber Music
    I just wanted to talk about these, as I have grown quite obsessed with them of late. I have listened to very little else over the last three weeks. Particularly 3-8 and 10, all of which I have grown very fond of. If I had to pick favourites, I suppose I would go for 3, 4 and 7. I haven't yet got...
  11. Classical Music Discussion
    So right now I'm looking for string quartet pieces for an ensemble competition. I'm looking at pieces with more of an "angry" vibe. I'm thinking along the lines of Ravel 4th movement, Shosty no. 3 3rd movement kind of stuff. As of right now Shosty no. 8 2nd and 3rd movements are in the lead...
  12. Identifying Classical Music
    Hello, Does anyone recognise this piece? Reminded of Adagio for Strings, but is not it. Not even sure it is classical piece. Any ideas? Thanks in advance
  13. Solo & Chamber Music
    The TC Top 200 Recommended String Quartets List Facilitated by TurnaboutVox 1. Schubert: String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden" 2. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 3. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130 + Op. 133 "Grosse Fuge" 4...
  14. Solo & Chamber Music
    I've nearly finished the tremendous and very amusing account of the Guarnieri Quartet by its first violinist, Arnold Steinhardt. It is called Indivisible by Four. (They retired in 2009 after a 45-year career together.) Steinhardt refers at one point to the nine composing giants of the string...
  15. Today's Composers
    I'm composing a String Quartet for my high school ensemble to perform (as a project to be able to graduate) and have been working on it on and off for about 3 months as it's been hard finding the time to really sit down and focus. I'm pretty content with my voice-leading and I think from a...
  16. Non-Classical Music
    Hi, I am a classical musician and I love jazz to. I like Bill Evans very much, Also Dave Brubeck's quartet. Where should I start? What is some essential music I should listen to? Many thanks
  17. Solo & Chamber Music
    Hello everybody! As I've already said in another post, and this night I encountered an interesting set of 4 pieces (4 Songs without words) written for string quartet by someone called Jacques Bank, a Dutch composer as I can read from the description under yt's video, who wrote these pieces in...
  18. Solo & Chamber Music
    http://www.sinfinimusic.com/uk/features/guides/artist-guides/top-10-string-quartets What do you think? Are your favorites here? What other quartet ensembles would you add to this list? What other recordings?
  19. Music Theory
    Throughout music history there have been pieces that start on an unaccented beat and my mind tends to want to make that the downbeat or accented beat until I realize something is askew and I have to do a mental flip or catching up to be in synch with the music. The most famous example might be...
  20. Composer Guestbooks
    Mexican composer who studied with Nadia Boulanger, Messiaen, Stockhausen and Ligeti. Estrada doesn't seem to get mentioned often here at TC. He's shown great interest in Native American music. I can't claim to be highly knowledgeable about him, but I love Ishini'Ioni in particular. The Arditti...
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