Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

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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 ...

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 ...

This young Berlin-based quartet impressed in a polished recital that built on Webern and Mendelssohn towards Beethoven’s enigmatic 0p 131 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Modern living forced me to grab a movement or two at a time, while commuting, cooking dinner and putting away laundry. By Daniel J.

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 ...

In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...

Jan Grüning, violist for the Ariel Quartet, likens the task of playing all the works Beethoven wrote for string quartets to climbing Mount Everest. At each stopping point along the climb, a different ...

With this release of the five masterpieces that constitute Beethoven’s final string quartets (plus the F-Minor, Opus 95), the Takacs Quartet completes its award-winning cycle for Decca. And a major ...

This Thursday, Da Camera presents its second concert in their chamber music series this season: Beethoven Perspectives with the London-based Elias String Quartet. For this concert, the group will ...

In an age that has seen the string quartet develop into something of a ‘trendy item’, it is sobering to ponder that back in the 1930s and 1940s the Budapest Quartet was virtually a household name. It ...