Beethoven - Complete String Quartets Vol.8
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Label: Audite
Cat No: AUDITE92688
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 22nd September 2017
Contents
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Quartetto di CremonaWorks
String Quartet no.3 in D major, op.18 no.3String Quartet no.10 in E flat major, op.74 'Harp'
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Quartetto di CremonaAbout
Vol.8, the final volume of the edition opens with the third of the Op.18 Quartets with which Beethoven introduced himself as a composer in 1800 - six quartets which indeed all tell their own "story". From the tentative beginning, cautiously drawing the listener in, through to the tempestuous concluding tarantella every bar of the Quartet in D major is replete and carefully considered. Beethoven's debut quartet is contrasted with the so-called "Harp" Quartet, op.74, which does not feature a harp but instead presents Beethoven on his way to modernism. A cunningly conceived first movement with prominent plucked "harp notes" is answered by the finale, where Beethoven reuses a (discarded) number from his incidental music to Goethe's freedom drama Egmont as a theme and variations - a clear indication of the fact that the composer in 1809 at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, lived through politically precarious times.
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