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Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets

Smetana Quartet

Chamber Music - Released August 28, 2020 | Supraphon a.s.

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The Smetana Quartet are a true legend. For over four decades (1945-1989), the ensemble gained critical acclaim and enthused audiences all over world, particularly in the UK, USA and Japan. They attained perfect chime and extraordinary flexibility in voice leading, resulting in part from their playing the entire repertoire by heart. The quartet performed Beethoven’s works throughout their existence – following Smetana, he was the composer on whose music they focused the most and whose complete quartets were in their repertoire from 1974 onwards. They explored some of Beethoven’s pieces for several years before including them in their concert programmes. In collaboration with a Supraphon team, in 1976 the ensemble embarked upon a colossal project, which in 1985 came to fruition with the release on Nippon Columbia of a recording of the complete Beethoven string quartets. Even though the past decade has seen significant changes pertaining to interpretation and technology, the Smetana Quartet’s account of Beethoven’s works is by no means a “museum exhibit”, with their vivacity and dynamism still enthralling today’s listeners. The recording, carefully digitally remastered from the original analogue tapes, is the very first release beyond Japan. Lovers of perfect sound are afforded the opportunity to listen to it Hi-Res 24 bit/192 kHz. © Supraphon
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Ludwig van Beethoven : Quatuors Op.130 & Op.133 (Grande Fugue)

Quatuor Artemis

Classical - Released April 26, 2010 | Warner Classics

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Beethoven Around the World: Philadelphia, String Quartets Nos 1 & 14

Quatuor Ébène

Classical - Released April 3, 2020 | Warner Classics

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Beethoven : String Quartets Op. 18 Nos. 1, 2, 3

Talich Quartet

Classical - Released September 1, 1981 | La Dolce Volta

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Beethoven: Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18 No. 2: IV. Allegro molto quasi presto

Ungarisches Streichquartett

Chamber Music - Released April 3, 2020 | The state51 Conspiracy Ltd

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Beethoven: String Quartets No.4 Op.18 & No.14 Op.131

Hagen Quartett

Classical - Released January 1, 1999 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Beethoven: Les quatuors, Vol. 2

Quatuor Végh

Chamber Music - Released January 1, 1987 | naïve classique

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Schumann : String Quartets Op. 41

Quatuor Modigliani

Quartets - Released September 8, 2017 | Mirare

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It’s in a small comic filled with self-derision that the Modigliani Quartet describe their background, from the founding of the quartet in 2003 to its beginnings at the Berliner Philharmonie in 2017: First Prize Winners of the Young Concert Artists in New York, which opened the doors of the Carnegie Hall to them in 2006, Grand Prix Winners of Académie Charles Cros two years later with Haydn, artistic directors of the Evian Festival in 2014… An impressive and international pedigree for this quartet originally founded by four students of the Conservatoire de Paris keen to try their hands on the greatest chamber music repertoire. This new recording of the sole three quartets of Schumann, works created in one go in 1842 – two years after 1840, “the year of the Lied”, and one year before the two chamber masterpieces that are the Piano Quartet and the Piano Quintet. It’s true that in these quartets, Schumann doesn’t stray too far from Beethoven and even less from Mendelssohn (posthumously dedicatee), maybe the consequence of an inevitably more linear and contrapuntal writing, not as harmonic as the addition of a piano would allow. The fact remains that the Modiglianis capture these three singular works and restore their lines rather than looking for a dense, symphonic and pianistic texture that is not theirs. © SM/Qobuz
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Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18

Jerusalem Quartet

Classical - Released August 20, 2015 | harmonia mundi

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Beethoven around the world : Op. 59 Nos 1 & 2 (Vienna)

Quatuor Ébène

Chamber Music - Released September 27, 2019 | Warner Classics

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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birthday with the entire world in 2020, the Carnegie Hall chose the French ensemble the Ébène Quartet to perform Beethoven’s Quatuors in their entirety. Honoured by this prestigious invitation, the four musicians decided to prolong this exceptional moment by playing this globally recognised music around the world, on all five continents in seven concerts between April 2019 and January 2020. The intellectual and emotional strength of Beethoven’s opus remains a force to be reckoned with, a humanist vector carried by the spirit of the Enlightenment. Over the course of this fantastic journey, the Ébène Quartet will record the quatuors in concerts given in Vienna, Philadelphia, Tokyo, São Paulo, Melbourne, Nairobi and Paris, their home ground. A film crew will follow the musicians on their world tour and will thereafter produce a documentary. The first milestone of this Beethoven around the World journey makes up this album, and was recorded in June 2019 in the Mozartsaal of the Vienna Konzerthaus. It contains the first two Razumovsky Quatuors, performed in the very city where they were composed in 1806. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Beethoven: Trios à cordes, Op. 9

Trio Arnold

Chamber Music - Released February 26, 2021 | Mirare

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Beethoven: Streichquartette, Op. 18

Amadeus Quartet

Classical - Released October 26, 2018 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Schubert, Mozart & Beethoven

Menahem Pressler

Classical - Released October 28, 2013 | La Dolce Volta

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109 & Bagatelles, Op. 126

Stephen Kovacevich

Classical - Released August 14, 2020 | Warner Classics

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Les derniers quatuors à cordes, volume 2

Ludwig van Beethoven & Yale String Quartet

Classical - Released September 23, 2003 | Vanguard

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Famous Works for Piano Duo

Jeroen Van Veen

Miscellaneous - Released March 25, 2022 | Brilliant Classics

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The pianist, composer, producer and renaissance musician Jeroen van Veen has played many concerts with both his wife Sandra and his brother Maarten, and has recorded with both of them for Brilliant Classics. The present compilation brings together a unique sequence of masterpieces for the genre in live and studio performances, made between 1992 and 2008, and given by the brothers as Piano Duo Van Veen. This pocket history of the piano duo opens – as it must – with the F minor Fantasy of Schubert. All elements of Schubert's art can be found in the Fantasy: his gift for a sublime, gently unfolding melody; melancholy harmonic turns from major to minor; high drama within a spacious symphonic design; intricate counterpoint in the finale. Less well known but no less accomplished in its way is the set of Beethoven variations by Camille Saint-Saëns, a polished transformation of a minuet theme. This 1992 studio recording concludes with a pair of 20th-century pieces which capitalise on the energy and momentum of the piano duo genre as a whole: La valse of Ravel and the Paganini Variations of Lutoslawski, which never fail to raise the pulse and receive here barnstorming performances. The adrenaline level increases further with a sequence of live performances, opening with Rachmaninoff’s gorgeous Russian Rhapsody and continuing with The Rite of Spring in the version which Stravinsky first performed with his friends in Paris prior to the ballet’s notorious public premiere in 1911. In his Monologue of 1964, Zimmermann developed the thread of his Dialogue for Two Pianos and Orchestra with a collage technique which quotes from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in which the two pianists muse almost to themselves at times. Rounding off this collection in epic style is the apotheosis of Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen. © Brilliant Classics
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Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op. 102, Bagatelles, Opp. 119 & 126

Andreas Staier

Chamber Music - Released June 10, 2022 | harmonia mundi

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From the mid-1810s until the end of his life, Beethoven constantly tested to the limit the forms he had inherited from Haydn and Mozart. His last two cello sonatas bear witness to this structural preoccupation, which was to open up so many new spaces . . . as do the final sets of Bagatelles, as disconcerting as they are innovative! Two genres shrewdly linked by Andreas Staier and Roel Dieltiens in these interpretations, in which eloquence merges with historically informed performance practice. © harmonia mundi
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Beethoven: The Early Quartets, Op. 18, Nos. 1 - 6

Juilliard String Quartet

Classical - Released February 14, 2020 | Sony Classical

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Beethoven Around the World: Paris, String Quartets Nos 3 & 15

Quatuor Ébène

Classical - Released May 15, 2020 | Warner Classics

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