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 ...

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 ...

The key of C minor generally found Beethoven in passionate mood – think of the ‘Pathétique’ piano sonata, for example – and the fourth quartet is no exception. From the stabbing accents of the very ...

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 ...

With this release of the five masterpieces that constitute Beethoven’s final string quartets (plus the F-Minor, Opus 95), the Takacs Quartet completes its award-winning cycle for Decca. And a major ...

Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

On January 24, 2025, Signum Classics will release BEETHOVEN: The Early Quartets, the final installment in the Calidore String Quartet's award-winning full Beethoven cycle. The Early Quartets follows ...

In an age that has seen the string quartet develop into something of a ‘trendy item’, it is sobering to ponder that back in the 1930s and 1940s the Budapest Quartet was virtually a household name. It ...

With only 51 minutes playing time there was room here for another of the Op.18 string quartets. Yet with the period-instrument group Quatuor Mosaïques in the driving seat the revelations come so thick ...

In the 1960s my mother put up with a lot of dreadful music. She bought me a trumpet and insisted I play it for an hour every day. She endured my wobbly scales, arpeggios and Al Hirt impersonations ...

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 ...

Colorado has long been a haven for summer classical music festivals, with the Aspen Music Festival as the most prominent and established. True music aficionados are also well aware of how fortunate ...