Beethoven String Quartets: DDD recordings....

Any recommendations for true DDD recordings?...looking at Telarc's Complete set...but not familiar with Cleveland Quartet...thanks....

phasecorrect06-05-2004 1:46am

swklein Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 136 posts 06-05-2004 at 10:32am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete In DDD, I'm partial to the Tokyo. The Emerson are terrific, but very high energy, and to my mind less idiomatic in Beethoven.
swklein Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 136 posts 06-05-2004 at 06:36pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete May as well throw another 2 cents into the mix: the Alban Berg Quartet set of the later quartets is also very fine (this is DDD: the studio recordings. I'm not familiar with the live versions). But the best of all to many, including me, is pre-DDD, the Vegh set on Valois. Leg35al (how are you, Joyce?) is entirely correct about multiple versions of the quartets never being too many.