BroadwayWorld

Calidore String Quartet Completes Beethoven Project with EARLY QUARTETS

On January 24, 2025, Signum Classics will release BEETHOVEN: The Early Quartets, the final installment in the Calidore String Quartet's award-winning full Beethoven cycle. The Early Quartets follows ...
BroadwayWorld

The Ariel Quartet to Release Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Over Two Years

Volume one of the cycle includes Beethoven’s Op. 18 string quartets over 2 CDs – on CD 1, String Quartet in F major, Op.18 No.1; String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No. 3; and String Quartet in B-flat ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Part 3

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Grotesque", "monstrous", "chaotic", "madness"... When audiences ...
The Guardian

Beethoven: String Quartets album review – Chiaroscuro Quartet’s versions are unforced and striking

The period-instrument quartet’s recording of Beethoven’s Ops 74 and 130 offers many rewards Though there’s no shortage of recordings of the Beethoven quartets, versions by groups taking an ...
Gramophone

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 7 - 11

String Quartet No. 7, 'Rasumovsky' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Cypress String Quartet String Quartet No. 8, 'Rasumovsky' Cypress String Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 9, ...
The Irish Times

Chiaroscuro Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos 4-6

The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Part 1

For the last two years of his life, Beethoven's world was dark and silent. His health was completely shot. And his emotional state was worse. He'd failed in his relationship with his nephew Karl, and ...