Zack: >I would greatly appreciate recommendations for recordings of the Beethoven >quartets, particularly the late quartets. Now I wonder if the 20 or 30 advices you have got so far has brought you any further. These advices prove that it is all a matter of taste. Taste differs, not only between people but often in time as well. I myself have many performances of the quartets. I always bought them in order to find some yet undiscovered truth in these works, and I always found that, both in new recordings and in historical ones. So the records that I prefer also have changed during the times. I really think that nobody can tell you which performances you will like, except you. My advice: turn on that radio or go to the shop and listen for yourself. And because the music is many more times important than the performers, you will always come home with something that you like in one way or another. Frank