BroadwayWorld

Calidore String Quartet Completes Beethoven Project with EARLY QUARTETS

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 follows ...
BroadwayWorld

Ariel Quartet Embarks On Beethoven String Quartet Cycle; Three Albums Over Two Years

Volume one of the cycle includes Beethoven's Op. 18 string quartets over 2 CDs – on CD 1, String Quartet in F major, Op.18 No.1; String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No. 3; and String Quartet in B-flat ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Part 1

For the last two years of his life, Beethoven's world was dark and silent. His health was completely shot. And his emotional state was worse. He'd failed in his relationship with his nephew Karl, and ...

Beethoven up close: NCPA’s ambitious two-year quartet project marks the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death

Mostly Beethoven’ , co‑curated by cellist Gauthier Herrmann and Khushroo Suntook, will also showcase compositions by Bach, ...
Gramophone

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric String Quartet)

The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary year is an important one. They choose not to proceed set by set through ...
The Irish Times

Chiaroscuro Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos 4-6

The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Part 3

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Grotesque", "monstrous", "chaotic", "madness"... When audiences ...