On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> Doug wrote:
>
>> Gotta love Teddy (and, by the way, his string
> quartets > are pretty good!).
>
> Which recording have you heard? I have the Leipzig
> String Quartet version, which was first recorded in
> GDR days, or directly after the Wende.
That's the one I have too - is there any other? It sounds very good, though I don't have anything to compare it to. He wrote them when he was like 17 or 18 right?
> I heard them perform the entire cycle (if you can call
> it that) live in Berlin on September 11th, 2003 (the
> centennial of Teddy's birthday).
Momentous day, eh?
> They closed with a Beethoven string quartet,
> presumably to wrap up on a note of hope. ;-)
All depends on which quartet, I suppose.
Doug