String Quartets

$18.99
Label
CPO
Release Date
April 4, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ludwig van Beethoven, Ferdinand Ries, Pierre Rode
    • PERFORMER
      Schuppanzigh Quartett
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 04, 2025
    • UPC
      761203548927
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555489-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    2. II. Allegretto ma non troppo -

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    3. III. Allegro assai vivace, ma serioso

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    4. IV. Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato - Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    5. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    6. II. Adagio espressivo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    7. III. Scherzo: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    8. IV. Poco allegretto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    9. I. Introduction - Allegro moderato

      Composer: Pierre Rode

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    10. II. Siciliano

      Composer: Pierre Rode

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett

    11. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Pierre Rode

      Ensemble: Schuppanzigh-Quartett


The Schuppanzigh Quartet has been a source of enormous energy in the area of string quartet literature for almost thirty years. Founded by violinist Anton Steck in 1996, the ensemble offers a delightful experience with their intellectually stimulating concert programs and recordings, whose connections to other arts are completely fascinating. So too is their current album with it's snapshots of early 19th century Vienna. Beethoven's unruly and ironic "Quartetto serioso" Op. 95 is paired with a quartet by the French violinist Pierre Rode, for whom the master had written his last violin sonata Op. 96 in 1812. Consequently, this work is also recorded here - not in the original, but in an astonishing quartet version that Beethoven's pupil and friend Ferdinand Ries arranged. And so it sounds almost a bit like Dvorak