If you are under the impression all Beethoven’s music is complicated, listen to the slow movement of the final String Quartet, op.135. Simply beautiful. Beautifully simple. The final movement of this ...

Both works on the Belcea Quartet’s programme last night have been in the repertoire for a long time – Beethoven wrote his ...

But there was further to go, and in his Op.74, the ‘Harp’ Quartet of 1809, Beethoven started the onward journey. While it shares the Op.59 quartets’ punchy concentration and generous spirit, it begins ...

It is the pinnacle of a string quartet’s activities to record the Beethoven cycle. And it’s great music. Time-tested. I could go on and on. MP: Artaria performed all 15 Shostakovich string ...

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 ...

If we revered Beethoven, it was as an unapologetic revolutionary, a beacon for musical reinvention in his late string quartets, his greatest music and among the most consequential music ever written.

we'll start by listening to some chamber music he was working on at the same time, in the summer of 1810. The Cleveland Quartet plays the third movement of Beethoven's String Quartet, Op.

Beethoven finished his ... Tuesday night, the quartet closed the final music event of the JapanOC Festival with an appearance by the Tokyo String Quartet, presented by the Philharmonic Society ...

Friday night at the Music@Menlo festival, the group left its mark on Beethoven. The ensemble performed his String Quartet in F major, op. 18, no. 1 — the first of his 16 quartets — in such a ...

but “Beethoven was the first man who used music with absolute integrity as the expression of his own emotional life.” A traversal of the string quartets is like watching that emotional life ...

UB may be the only place in the country — or the world, according to Department of Music staff — that presents all 16 Beethoven string quartets annually. The honor this year goes to the ...