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 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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Endless invention, and a vision of things to come. Beethoven's last two string quartets in his early ...

String Quartet No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Endellion Quartet String Quartet No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven ...

The period-instrument quartet’s recording of Beethoven’s Ops 74 and 130 offers many rewards Though there’s no shortage of recordings of the Beethoven quartets, versions by groups taking an ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | Brentano String Quartet By Vivien Schweitzer Beethoven, inspired by the tomb scene from “Romeo and Juliet,” wrote “les derniers soupirs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soloist-led string quartets on disc stretch from the Rose, Busch and Paganini Quartets (the latter led by the brilliant Polish violinist Henri Temianka) to the (Thomas) Zehetmair and Chiaroscuro ...