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Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 8
Audite Musikproduktion

Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 8

$21.99

Details

Composer
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
Artist
QUARTETTO DI CREMONA
Format
CD
Label
Audite Musikproduktion
Released
Oct 06, 2017
Catalog #
AUD92688
UPC
4022143926883

About

The Quartetto di Cremona has spent over three years working on its recording series comprising all twenty string quartets as well as the two string quintets by Ludwig van Beethoven - a gigantic project which most ensembles tackle at a more advanced age. However, the Quartetto di Cremona, founded in 2000, wanted to experience it sooner. The audite Beethoven cycle, with itsexciting blend of spirit, precision and sense of sound - the Quartetto diCremona's trademark - has its finger on the pulse: the success was so immediatethat, following the first volumes, concert halls across Europe and the USinvited the ensemble to perform: in many quarters their recordings enjoyreference status. Thanks to studying Beethoven so thoroughly, the ensemble'sbroad repertoire has gained a new level of intensity and their playing culturehas been honed even further, both in terms of detailed expression and ofoverarching gestures and contours. The final volume of the edition opens withthe third of the Op. 18 Quartets with which Beethoven introduced himself as acomposer in 1800 - six quartets which indeed all tell their own "story". Fromthe tentative beginning, cautiously drawing the listener in,through to the tempestuous concluding tarantella, every bar of the Quartet in Dmajor is replete and carefully considered. Beethoven's debut quartet is contrastedwith the so-called "Harp Quartet" Op. 74, featuring yet another formalsolution. A cunningly conceived first movement with prominent plucked "harpnotes" is answered by the finale, where Beethoven reuses a (discarded) numberfrom his incidental music to Goethe's freedom drama Egmont as a theme and variations - a clear indication of the factthat the composer, in 1809, at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, lived throughpolitically precarious times.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 07:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    07:56
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Quartetto di Cremona
  2. 2 II. Andante con moto 08:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante con moto
    Duration
    08:23
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Quartetto di Cremona
  3. 3 III. Allegro 03:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Quartetto di Cremona
  4. 4 IV. Presto 06:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Presto
    Duration
    06:10
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Quartetto di Cremona
  5. 5 I. Poco adagio - Allegro 09:32
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Poco adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    09:32
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Quartetto di Cremona
  6. 6 II. Adagio ma non troppo 09:14
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Adagio ma non troppo
    Duration
    09:14
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Quartetto di Cremona
  7. 7 III. Presto 05:10
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    05:10
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Quartetto di Cremona
  8. 8 IV. Allegretto con variazioni 06:45
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Allegretto con variazioni
    Duration
    06:45
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Quartetto di Cremona