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 ...

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

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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 ...