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Lindsay String Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets [CD]

Lindsay String Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets [CD]

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The Lindsay String Quartet\u2019s award-winning and first Beethoven cycle (1979\u201383), originally recorded for ASV: risk-taking musicianship at the highest level presented in a \r
LIMITED EDITION.

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\u2018We had spent more time on rehearsing and trying to understand Beethoven than any other composer: he was a God to us,\u2019 writes cellist Bernard Gregor-Smith. \r
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Through the course of their 40-year career, the Lindsay String Quartet was synonymous above all with the string quartets of Beethoven. They began playing together in 1966 while still students at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Six years later, Ronald Birks took the second violin chair to join leader Peter Cropper, violist Roger Bigley and cellist Bernard Gregor-Smith. \r
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As the quartet in residence at the universities of Sheffield and Manchester, they began to scale the monuments of the repertoire, and they developed a collective identity \u2013 \u2018the Lindsays\u2019 sound\u2019 \u2013 which became much better known once they started to record the quartets of Beethoven for the Enigma label in the late 1970s. Opp 74 and then the six Op 18 quartets were released as analogue LPs before the Lindsays moved to the ASV label and recorded the rest of the cycle with new digital technology.

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Instantly recognisable even now and quite distinct from the ensembles of note who came before and after them, the Lindsays always sounded like a quartet of four discrete and entirely individual personalities. They soon became celebrated for a fierce, even ferocious commitment to both the notes on the page (taking Beethoven\u2019s repeat marks seriously when it was still unfashionable to do so) and to the sometimes rough, often tough and yet elevated spirit of music that still sets a benchmark for both ensembles and listeners. The Lindsays left nothing in the rehearsal studio, even when the red light was on. \r
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Already in this first cycle, the Lindsays take chances, stress the forward-looking nature of Beethoven\u2019s writing, and put interpretation ahead of finesse. When the late quartets were released together, they won the 1984 Gramophone Chamber Award. The ensemble re-recorded the entire cycle for ASV in the 1990s: the Lindsays sound remained the same while the interpretations evolved over the decades, becoming not objectively better but different. Parts of the first cycle such as Op. 131 go to greater extremes of tempo and dynamic in search of Beethoven\u2019s elusive truth: the opening fugue almost hangs in mid-air. Yet there is no shortage of fire in the belly of the C minor Op. 18 No. 4 or grace and wit in the \u2018Razumovsky\u2019 scherzos. \r
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This landmark set in Beethoven interpretation is reissued by Eloquence with a new booklet essay by Tully Potter, exploring the place of the Lindsays within the context of the great string quartets. \r
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\u201cEnormously enjoyable.\u201d Gramophone, April 1979 (Opp. 74, 95)\r
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\u201cOnly an ensemble of the highest class could show such sensitive understanding of this elusive movement [the Adagio of Op. 74].\u201d Gramophone, April 1983

String Quartet In F Major, Op. 18 No. 1

String Quartet In D Major, Op. 18 No. 3

String Quartet In A Major, Op. 18 No. 5

String Quartet In F Major, Op. 59 No. 1 \u2018Razumovsky No. 1\u2019

String Quartet In E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2 \u2018Razumovsky No. 2\u2019

String Quartet In E Flat Major, Op. 74 \u2018Harp\u2019

String Quartet In E Flat Major, Op. 127

String Quartet In B Flat Major, Op. 130 (with Grosse Fuge, Op. 133)

String Quartet In C Sharp Minor, Op. 131

String Quartet In A Minor, Op. 132

String Quartet In G Major, Op. 18 No. 2

String Quartet In C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4

String Quartet In B Flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6

String Quartet In C Major, Op. 59 No. 3 \u2018Razumovsky No. 3\u2019

String Quartet In F Minor, Op. 95 \u2018Serioso\u2019

String Quartet In F Major, Op. 135

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Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.The Lindsay String Quartetu2019s award-winning and first Beethoven cycle (1979u201383), originally recorded for ASV: risk-taking musicianship at the highest level presented in a rLIMITED EDITION.

rr

u2018We had spent more time on rehearsing and trying to understand Beethoven than any other composer: he was a God to us,u2019 writes cellist Bernard Gregor-Smith. rr

Through the course of their 40-year career, the Lindsay String Quartet was synonymous above all with the string quartets of Beethoven. They began playing together in 1966 while still students at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Six years later, Ronald Birks took the second violin chair to join leader Peter Cropper, violist Roger Bigley and cellist Bernard Gregor-Smith. rr

As the quartet in residence at the universities of Sheffield and Manchester, they began to scale the monuments of the repertoire, and they developed a collective identity u2013 u2018the Lindsaysu2019 soundu2019 u2013 which became much better known once they started to record the quartets of Beethoven for the Enigma label in the late 1970s. Opp 74 and then the six Op 18 quartets were released as analogue LPs before the Lindsays moved to the ASV label and recorded the rest of the cycle with new digital technology.

rr

Instantly recognisable even now and quite distinct from the ensembles of note who came before and after them, the Lindsays always sounded like a quartet of four discrete and entirely individual personalities. They soon became celebrated for a fierce, even ferocious commitment to both the notes on the page (taking Beethovenu2019s repeat marks seriously when it was still unfashionable to do so) and to the sometimes rough, often tough and yet elevated spirit of music that still sets a benchmark for both ensembles and listeners. The Lindsays left nothing in the rehearsal studio, even when the red light was on. rr

Already in this first cycle, the Lindsays take chances, stress the forward-looking nature of Beethovenu2019s writing, and put interpretation ahead of finesse. When the late quartets were released together, they won the 1984 Gramophone Chamber Award. The ensemble re-recorded the entire cycle for ASV in the 1990s: the Lindsays sound remained the same while the interpretations evolved over the decades, becoming not objectively better but different. Parts of the first cycle such as Op. 131 go to greater extremes of tempo and dynamic in search of Beethovenu2019s elusive truth: the opening fugue almost hangs in mid-air. Yet there is no shortage of fire in the belly of the C minor Op. 18 No. 4 or grace and wit in the u2018Razumovskyu2019 scherzos. rr

This landmark set in Beethoven interpretation is reissued by Eloquence with a new booklet essay by Tully Potter, exploring the place of the Lindsays within the context of the great string quartets. rr

u201cEnormously enjoyable.u201d Gramophone, April 1979 (Opp. 74, 95)rr

u201cOnly an ensemble of the highest class could show such sensitive understanding of this elusive movement [the Adagio of Op. 74].u201d Gramophone, April 1983

String Quartet In F Major, Op. 18 No. 1

String Quartet In D Major, Op. 18 No. 3

String Quartet In A Major, Op. 18 No. 5

String Quartet In F Major, Op. 59 No. 1 u2018Razumovsky No. 1u2019

String Quartet In E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2 u2018Razumovsky No. 2u2019

String Quartet In E Flat Major, Op. 74 u2018Harpu2019

String Quartet In E Flat Major, Op. 127

String Quartet In B Flat Major, Op. 130 (with Grosse Fuge, Op. 133)

String Quartet In C Sharp Minor, Op. 131

String Quartet In A Minor, Op. 132

String Quartet In G Major, Op. 18 No. 2

String Quartet In C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4

String Quartet In B Flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6

String Quartet In C Major, Op. 59 No. 3 u2018Razumovsky No. 3u2019

String Quartet In F Minor, Op. 95 u2018Seriosou2019

String Quartet In F Major, Op. 135

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