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virtuoso string quartets?

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:16 am
by adeadsniper
Does anyone know of any string quartets with four virtuoso parts (2vln, vla, vcl)?
Basically the quartet equivalent of the Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia.

Thanks.

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:35 am
by Yagan Kiely
Bartok, Shostakovich.

Mozart's may be easy to play (in comparison), but it is more difficult to get right.