Mozart,Haydn,Beethoven String Quartets......

I heartedly second Swklein's recommendation of recordings by the Mosaiques Quartet. Their Haydn is excellent, as are the recordings by the Kodály Quartet on Naxos.

My recommendations:
HAYDN
String Quartets Op. 76, Nos. 1-6
Kodály Quartet (Naxos)
Mosaïques Quartet (Naive Astrée)

BEETHOVEN
Tokyo or Emerson or Alban Berg Qts

MOZART
String Quartets, K387, K421(Haydn Quartets, disc 1)
Mosaiques Quartet (Naive Astrée)

String Quartets, K464, K465 ("Dissonance") (Haydn Quartets, disc 2)
Mosaiques Quartet (Naive Astrée)

I must agree: Guarneri Qt. is also great for Beethoven. I have some of their LPs, but not the CDs.

Phase,

there is at least one Mozart/Smetana on the Testament label.

Also Dvorak piano trios

I bought a great recording of some Faure chamber music that is outstanding (performance and recording) that might be of interest to some of you:

Pieces are:
Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Nos. 1, 2
Berceuse, Op. 16
Romance, Op. 10
Andate, Op. 75
Morceau de lecture
Isabelle Faust (violin), Florent Boffard (piano)
Harmonia Mundi (2002)

Buxter,

I nominate the Mosaiques Quartet's recordings as great digital ones.

It's possible that Hobart does so, just as Cropper does (or tries to do) in the Lindsays. And Cropper snifs so much that I can hardly listen to more than a few minutes at a time!

schubermaniac,

This thread was about Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, regardless of what you think about these composers.

Why not start another thread on Schubert, inter alia?