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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

String Quartet No.3 in D, Op.18 No.3: 1. Allegro String Quartet No.3 in D, Op.18 No.3: 2. Andante con moto String Quartet No.3 in D, Op.18 No.3: 3. Allegro String ...

The Tákacs Quartet are in the process of recording the complete Beethoven quartets; this is the second volume. The Op.18 quartets were Beethoven’s first foray into the genre and are too often ...

Editor’s note: Lawrence Stomberg, professor of music, has written a more detailed description of Beethoven’s career and his string quartets, which can be read here on the Department of Music’s website ...

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 ...

The internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet will present this season’s Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle at UB, with the first two concerts set for Feb. 15 and Feb. 17 in Lippes Concert Hall in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...