Steve Schwartz wrote: >I might as well forfeit all my credibility and admit that I prefer >Dvorak's string quartets to Brahms's - not all of them (some early >examples definitely show the composer feeling his way), but the mature >ones. Dvorak certainly has more of them to love, compared to Brahms's >modest three. For the past year or so, I also have preferred the Dvorak string quartets to those by Brahms. I'm not sure why Steve feels there might be a little "public" forfeiture of credibility for preferring Dvorak. His string quartets have an excellent reputation, better than the reputation for Brahms. Regardless, I find myself listening to Dvorak and Brahms string quartets more in recent years than Mozart/Haydn. Don Satz [log in to unmask]