In the question of Schubert's quartets, the real choice is not between the Vienna String Quartet and some other string quartet. As fine as the best performances of the other recordings of Schubert's quartets have been -- and the Melos Quartet's sweetly singing performances for DG were especially fine -- these performances by the Vienna Quartet are in their way as good as the best and in that way maybe even better than the best. What way is that? In a word, they're more idiomatic. The Vienna Quartet nail not only the music's innate lyricism, expressive intensity and compassionate humanity, but, beneath, behind and beyond that, it's sense of comfortable familiarity. The Vienna Quartet's warm tone, its slightly sweet vibrato, its lightly swaying rhythm, its ineffable feeling of inevitability make its recordings an easy top-choice for Schubert's quartets.
But that's not the real choice. The real choice is whether or not to get all of Schubert's quartets because, while like Beethoven's quartets, they fall into three periods -- early, middle, and late -- unlike Beethoven's quartets, most of them are early, and, also unlike Beethoven's, most of them are fairly immature. So while few have ever denied that Schubert's four late quartets are anything but masterpieces, few have ever asserted that Schubert's 10 early quartets are anything but exercises intended for the family living room. But in the Vienna Quartet's performances, the living room seems intimately familiar and the music sounds like the brilliant work of the shy, sensitive, and supremely gifted 13-year-old genius of the family. In the question of Schubert's quartets, the Vienna Quartet's recordings make an easy top-choice for all Schubert's quartets. Camerata's sound is immediate but perhaps a bit close for some tastes.
感谢小白，可惜英文是短板。 MissChen 发表于 2013-12-23 10:52 static/image/common/back.gif
您说这套是不是就是西敏寺传奇录音中的那套？另外想请教下莱比锡四重奏那套舒伯特如何？
西敏寺那套舒伯特就是维也纳弦乐四重奏组的，跟小白说的那套应该是同一个录音，确实很好，味道很正 刚好俱乐部有大神分享了这一套！
花艳唇 发表于 2015-8-30 18:02 static/image/common/back.gif
刚好俱乐部有大神分享了这一套！
哦哦，不好意思，那是我搞错了:P
不知道哪一套更好些？西敏寺的那套查了下应该是1950~1953年间的录音，个人感觉很不错 怎么会是同一个录音，西敏寺是单声道，日版这套的录制时间要晚很多
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