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The Alban Berg are the first to give us all the late Beethoven quartets on CD. The Fitzwilliam Quartet on Decca are part of the way there, having recorded Op. 132 in this medium (CD 411 643-2DH, 1/85) ...
for a recording of the late quartets of Beethoven. “We developed a working relationship … that evolved in such a way it became almost ideal,” Rhodes, the violist, said in an interview.
and string quartet recordings as late as the 1930s capture a far less aggressive, pressurized style of playing. How much ...
The program framed the late Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s Third String Quartet, subtitled Leaves of an Unwritten Diary, with two Beethoven quartets. Although the Shanghai Quartet was ...
Donald Macleod is joined by Laura Tunbridge and Edward Dusinberre to focus on the five late quartets, uncovering the stories, circumstances and conversations that surround them.
I should say straight away that this is a most impressive set and contains some of the most searching late Beethoven currently on record ... far superior to their earlier records of the Op. 18 ...
Widely admired for his intense and precise playing, Mr. Krosnick stayed with the quartet for over 40 years, longer than ...
String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: I. Maestoso - Allegro - . String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: II. Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile String Quartet No. 12 in E ...