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 ...

In the Op.18/2 Quartet one can still sense Haydn and Mozart coursing through Beethoven’s veins, but just 10 years later Op.95’s no-compromise, firebrand originality fearlessly throws off the shackles ...

Many other Beethoven recordings exist by the Allegri, but this long established group has reinvented itself several times: it's now on (at least) its fifth incarnation. The current line-up plays with ...

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 ...

This Thursday, Da Camera presents its second concert in their chamber music series this season: Beethoven Perspectives with the London-based Elias String Quartet. For this concert, the group will ...

The key of C minor generally found Beethoven in passionate mood – think of the ‘Pathétique’ piano sonata, for example – and the fourth quartet is no exception. From the stabbing accents of the very ...

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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 ...

Beethoven wanted to get his first set of string quartets just right. He was in his 20s, and they sounded a bit like late Haydn's. And why wouldn't they? The classical master was Beethoven's teacher.