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 ...
MinnPost

Bingeing on Beethoven with St. Paul’s Artaria String Quartet

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BroadwayWorld

The Ariel Quartet to Release Beethoven String Quartet Cycle 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 ...
The New York Times

A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Budapest Quartet Gets To The Heart Of Beethoven

The Budapest String Quartet has always been my standard-bearer for chamber music. I grew up listening to their recordings, and especially admired not only their gorgeous sound, but also the uncanny ...
Colorado Public Radio

Beethoven’s late string quartets: They sometimes clear the room, but I love them

In the 1960s my mother put up with a lot of dreadful music. She bought me a trumpet and insisted I play it for an hour every day. She endured my wobbly scales, arpeggios and Al Hirt impersonations ...
Chicago Tribune

Beethoven: The Late String Quartets

With this release of the five masterpieces that constitute Beethoven’s final string quartets (plus the F-Minor, Opus 95), the Takacs Quartet completes its award-winning cycle for Decca. And a major ...
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 ...
NPR

Beethoven's String Quartet Of Transcendence

In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...
Classical Music

Beethoven! His 21 essential masterpieces, ranked

Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...
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 ...