The Brentano Quartet’s third volume of Beethoven’s Late String Quartets for æon features the opp. 130/133. + The relation between form and language seems to haunt the writing of the B flat major Quartet, the composer struggling with the enigmatic question of our intimate experience in relation to music and the sense of musical composition. + However, in the Grosse Fuge, op. 133, Beethoven the visionary proclaims his unshakeable faith in the world like an implacable will facing menace and chaos. + The pertinence of the struggle marks the work’s structure and character, one of his most inspired.