That’s the approach the Danish quartet took in two recent recordings on the ECM label, “Prism I” and “Prism II,” which place two late Beethoven quartets in context with Bach fugues and ...

The Quartet acknowledges that it is unusual to present Beethoven's Quartets in reverse order, leading with the Late Quartets and concluding with his earliest set of six.

Beethoven came out of that style but by the time he was composing his late quartets he himself had split in several different directional styles. After Beethoven it almost becomes a stylistic free ...

Beethoven Complete String Quartets: Volume 3 The Late Quartets was produced and engineered by Alan Bise January 16­-19, May 14-16, and July 21-24, 2021, in Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College ...

A Late Quartet's centerpiece--Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131--can be a fool's errand. The marathon composition requires string musicians to play, without pauses, no ...

Beethoven wrote 16 string quartets which were graced with opus numbers. At this year’s La Jolla Music Society Summerfest, you can hear nine of them. As I mentioned in previous writings, expect a ...

You hear Beethoven in his late 20s, when he wrote the six Apollonian Opus 18 quartets; in the second half of his 30s, with the three meaty Razumovsky quartets of Op. 59 and the individual works of ...

Beethoven wrote those late quartets at the end of his life. He was really struggling. He was very, very deaf and really struggling with his health, but still trying. It wasn't entirely well-received ...

Miro Quartet Animates Beethoven, Lesser-Known Piece. April 18, 2001. By Joseph McLellan. ... All of Beethoven's late quartets are notable for innovative forms and dramatic impact, ...

The Emerson String Quartet took the Ozawa Hall stage at Tanglewood on two very humid evenings in programs devoted to Beethoven's five late quartets. On Tuesday, the music came without much spontaneity ...

This weekend, starting Saturday, Feb. 8, the St. Paul-based Artaria String Quartet will play half of the Beethovens in Hamline’s Sundin Hall. They’ll play the other half in April.