Narratio Quartet - Beethoven Late Str Qtets [CD]

The last instalment in the Narratio Quartet's revolutionary interpretation of Beethoven's String Quartets. This last 4CD box contains all the late Quartets, from opus 95 to opus 135.

Viola de Hoog: My colleagues in the Narratio Quartet and I have been immersed in all of Beethoven's string quartets for over fifteen years now. We experience time and again how Beethoven explored and then overcame the limits of the Classical style and the instrumental challenges that were prevalent at the start of the nineteenth century along new pathways. Opus 95 is a great example of exactly this. Beethoven himself stated in a letter to Sir George Smart, at the time an important musician in England, "The Quartet is written for a small circle of connoisseurs and is never to be performed in public." Each of the five late quartets, from Opus 127 onwards, explores new forms, modulating to remotely distant keys, presenting hitherto unprecedented melodic arches and containing what were, at the time, unusually detailed dynamic instructions; different ways in which Beethoven was tearing himself away from the familiar style of the day.Beethoven composed these five quartets in a remarkably brief period, between 1824 and 1826.

On volume 2 (Middle Quartets, CC 72981):

Fanfare (USA): "This is a truly special release that fully lives up to the promise of the Narratio Quartet's op. 18. It is a necessary purchase for all Beethovenians."

On volume 1(Early Quartets, CC 72969):

BBC Music Magazine (UK): "There is much to enjoy in the quartet's poised and stylish playing".

String Quartet Op. 95 in F Minor - I. Allegro con brio

String Quartet Op. 130 in B-flat Major - I. Adagio ma non troppo. Allegro

String Quartet Op. 132 in A Minor - I. Assai sostenuto. Tempo Allegro

String Quartet Op. 131 in C-sharp Minor - I. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo

II. Allegretto ma non troppo

II. Presto

II. Allegro ma non tanto

II. Allegro molto vivace

III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso

III. Poco scherzoso, Andante con moto ma non troppo

III. Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart

III. Allegro moderato

IV. Larghetto espressivo. Allegretto agitato

IV. Alla Danza tedesca, Allegro assai

V. Alla marcia, assai vivac

IV. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile / Allegretto / Adagio ma non troppo e semplice / Allegretto

String Quartet Op. 127 in E-flat Major - I. Maestoso. Allegro

V. Cavatina, Adagio molto espressivo

V. Allegro appassionato

V. Presto

II. Adagio ma non troppo e molto cantabile

Grande Fugue Op. 133

VI. Adagio quasi un poco andante

III. Scherzo. Vivace

New Finale for String Quartet Op. 130 in B-flat Major

VII. Allegro

IV. Finale

String Quartet Op. 135 in F Major - I. Allegretto

II. Vivace

III. Assai lento, cantante e tranquillo

IV. Der schwer gefabte Entschlub Grave, ma non troppo tratto. Allegro

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 608917298222
• Release Date: May 16, 2025

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