Beethoven - Complete String Quartets
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94672
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 7
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 20th May 2013
Contents
Works
Grosse Fuge in B flat major, op.133Minuet in A flat major, Hess 33
String Quartets (complete) (16)
Artists
Suske QuartetWorks
Grosse Fuge in B flat major, op.133Minuet in A flat major, Hess 33
String Quartets (complete) (16)
Artists
Suske QuartetAbout
When he did, however, he was at the pinnacle of his chamber music abilities. The pieces in this collection can be grouped according to three distinct periods of Beethoven’s life. The first set are to some extent indebted to Haydn and Mozart – as the melancholic Op.18 No.6 shows in particular – but equally show Beethoven starting to forge a new path of his own.
The (at the time) somewhat misunderstood middle set stretch the quartet form to near symphonic length, and add a level of virtuosity worthy of the concert hall rather than the traditionally private sphere of chamber music.
Finally, the last set transcend the composer’s previous quartets both in form and harmony to reach a level of technical abstraction that was not recognised for its brilliance until after the composer’s life – a quality audible especially in the quartet in B flat major, which Beethoven’s biographer referred to as a ‘monster of quartet music’.
The pieces are performed by the Suske Quartet, a German quartet whose popularity was at its height in the 1970s, and for whom recording Beethoven was a staple of their musical life: the recording career of the group’s original line‐up both began and ended with Beethoven pieces.
Suske Quartet:
- Klaus Peters (violin)
- Karl Suske (violin)
- Karl-Heinz Dommus (viola)
- Matthias Pfaender (cello)
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