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Beethoven - String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18 No. 2
Composed: 1799Genres:
Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Chamber Music
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I attended some of these sessions and can still recall the forensic care and commitment the Takács brought to these works. — More…
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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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the highly accomplished Chiaroscuro promote an ‘Ibragimovian’ view of Beethoven that is above all dynamic, intelligent, agile and argumentative, with much vividly attenuated phrasing added to... — More…
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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They play with extraordinary strenuousness, very unlike the Alban Berg Quartet with whom they studied. The Belceas re-enact the creative torments of the composer to a degree where you feel their... — More…
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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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The Quartetto di Cremona’s ongoing Beethoven cycle has particularly impressed me for its visceral excitement and pulsating energy…[they demonstrate] consummate mastery of soft mysterious playing,... — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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Robert Simpson disagreed with writers who believed that Beethoven's backward glances to Haydn and Mozart in his Op 18 set were so obvious as to distract attention from his own individuality.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2004, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Chamber
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Anyone who doesn't know these masterpieces should, and anyone who does will welcome this eight-disc set by the revered Borodin Quartet… — More…
