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String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1: I. Allegro con brio String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1: II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato String Quartet in F ...
A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to a succession of student ensembles playing Beethoven’s Op 18 No 5. I hadn’t realised how an experience ...
The Tákacs Quartet are in the process of recording the complete Beethoven quartets; this is the second volume. The Op.18 quartets were Beethoven’s first foray into the genre and are too often ...
The key of C minor generally found Beethoven in passionate mood – think of the ‘Pathétique’ piano sonata, for example – and the fourth quartet is no exception. From the stabbing accents of the very ...
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Soloist-led string quartets on disc stretch from the Rose, Busch and Paganini Quartets (the latter led by the brilliant Polish violinist Henri Temianka) to the (Thomas) Zehetmair and Chiaroscuro ...
The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...