American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...

However, these are all coupled quite differently: the Calliope set offering a middle- and late-period quartet together. Of the complete sets, however, the Quartetto Italiano can be confidently ...

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Beethoven's String Quartet, Op 131 from the Chaos Quartet in a performance from St George's, Bristol. Current members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, the Vienna-based Chaos Quartet ...

in the same way that the late quartets do from their predecessors. Opp. 101 , 106, 109 , 110 and 111 enter new levels of scale and ambition - and all were intended by Beethoven to be published ...

And by the time of Beethoven, the quartet form had already “gone public,” for better or worse. His late quartets were so far ahead of their time that they were received tepidly, at best, by ...