Name: Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 2
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Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 2

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Release Date: 18th Oct 2024
Catalogue No: CHAN20300(2)
Label: Chandos
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18 No. 2

Work length24:59

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Doric String Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length7:41

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II. Adagio cantabile

Track length7:12

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III. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length4:35

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IV. Allegro molto, quasi presto

Track length5:31

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130

Work length48:30

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(1825 Version)
Doric String Quartet

I. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro

Track length13:53

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II. Presto

Track length1:53

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III. Andante con moto ma non troppo

Track length7:14

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IV. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai

Track length2:43

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V. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo

Track length7:19

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VI. Große Fuge, Op. 133

Track length15:28

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130: Finale. Allegro

Work length10:38

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(1826 Version)
Doric String Quartet

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18 No. 5

Work length31:47

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Doric String Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length10:25

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II. Minuet

Track length4:36

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III. Andante cantabile con variazioni

Track length10:02

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IV. Allegro

Track length6:44

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 'Rasumovsky No. 2'

Work length40:40

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Doric String Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length14:26

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II. Molto adagio

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III. Allegretto

Track length7:47

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IV. Finale. Presto

Track length5:20

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For this second volume of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Doric String Quartet has combined one middle period, one late, and two early quartets to create a programme that works on its own terms, as well as forming part of the complete cycle. The musicians start off with a vivid performance of Op. 18 No. 2, following it with the Quartet, Op. 130, in which, as finale, they perform the Große Fugue (Op. 133), as Beethoven long contemplated it. They have appended the alternative finale, first published with Op. 130, thus allowing the listener to choose either version. Op. 18 No. 5 in A major is then followed by Op. 59 No. 2 in E minor. Op. 18, Beethoven’s first set of quartets, often show influences from the quartets of Haydn and Mozart, albeit very much filtered through Beethoven’s original artistic sensibility. The second set, the three ‘Razumovsky’ Quartets, Op. 59, was written in a golden period of the composer’s creative life (alongside the Fourth Symphony, Violin Concerto, and Fidelio) and shows both development from the earlier set and a powerful distinctness. Although mis-understood (or found incom prehensible) by their first audiences, Beethoven’s late quartets have become universally admired as among the pinnacles of western art music. Stravinsky considered the Große Fuge ‘an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever’.

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 2

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