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 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 ...

The Tákacs Quartet are in the process of recording the complete Beethoven quartets; this is the second volume. The Op.18 quartets were Beethoven’s first foray into the genre and are too often ...

presented by the National String Quartet Foundation in the Autumn Season 2020 The Goethe-Institut Irland is delighted to support the National String Quartet Foundation in it’s celebration of Beethoven ...

The Calidore String Quartet reflect on the importance of Beethoven's quartets in their lives Beethoven’s music has been an integral part of our quartet since the beginning. In our first reading ...

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 ...

The New Zealand String Quartet is playing a programme of Beethoven’s late string quartets at St Mary of the Angels Church in Wellington. It’s the culmination of BEETHOVEN!, a nationwide series ...

The world doesn’t need yet another recording of Beethoven’s string quartets, you might argue, but this terrific cycle from the Elias String Quartet demonstrates how fresh, probing and confrontational ...

The presentation of this imminent release from the Allegri String Quartet needs a bit of clarification. First, however, it features fine performances of three of Beethoven's six opus 18 Quartets, the ...

String Quartet No. 8, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 5 Béla Bartók, Composer Hungarian Quartet String Quartet No. 9, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet ...