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Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95 'Serioso'
Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, from 1810, was his last before his late string quartets. It is commonly referred to as the "Serioso," stemming from his title "Quartett[o] Serioso" at the beginning and the tempo designation for the third movement.
It is one of the shortest and most compact of all the Beethoven quartets, and shares a tonality (F) with the first and last quartets Beethoven published . In character and key, as well as in the presence of a final frenetic section in the parallel major, it is related to another composition of Beethoven's middle period — the overture to his incidental music for Goethe's drama Egmont, which he was composing in the same year he was working on this quartet.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._11_(Beethoven)
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Building a Library, January 2009, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2005, Chamber Choice
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th November 2012
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Building a Library, October 2013, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Chamber
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