The Savage Breast

About This

Now just a listening blog, it was formerly this...

On view is a catalogue of string quartet recordings. To keep the collection classical, it is limited to material composed by individuals born before 1780. This isn't perfect, but it will do. I offer no reviews of my own, but comments and polite critiques are welcomed.

The catalogue's purpose is to demonstrate which of these special compositions can be heard in a professional recording. It is assuredly not to list every such recording.

Special thanks are owed to Michael Iscenko for material contributions to the list, and to Michael Kernaghan for indulging my indecision over whether or not to post this stuff to an actual website.

New posts will be made, and old ones updated, as discoveries occur.

Friday, April 11, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

cd3

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Monday, April 7, 2014

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Castaways and Cutouts, The Decemberists

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Friday, April 4, 2014

cd4, Études et al., Maurizio Pollini

cd1

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Emanuel Aloys Förster (1748-1823)

Friday, June 3, 2011

Joseph Teixidor (1752-c.1811)

Quartets de Corda

Cambini Quartet
La Ma de Guido 2093
2010

Quartet I in B flat major:
allegro non presto
adagio
minuet allegro
allegro di molto
Quartet V in G major:
allegro
largo
minuet
allegro non poco presto
Quartet II in E flat major:
allegro non presto
largo
minuet
rondo allegro