BroadwayWorld

Calidore String Quartet Completes Beethoven Project with EARLY QUARTETS

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 ...
BroadwayWorld

The Ariel Quartet to Release Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Over Two Years

Volume one of the cycle includes Beethoven’s Op. 18 string quartets over 2 CDs – on CD 1, String Quartet in F major, Op.18 No.1; String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No. 3; and String Quartet in B-flat ...
The New York Times

A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons

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 ...
Colorado Public Radio

Beethoven’s late string quartets: They sometimes clear the room, but I love them

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 ...
San Diego Reader

"We shine a beam of light" on Beethoven quartets

The Danish String Quartet is in residency at The La Jolla Music Society from November 16 through November 23. They are presenting five concerts as a part of their Prism project. The players in the ...
The New York Times

17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Modern living forced me to grab a movement or two at a time, while commuting, cooking dinner and putting away laundry. By Daniel J.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Part 3

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Grotesque", "monstrous", "chaotic", "madness"... When audiences ...
NPR

Beethoven's String Quartet Of Transcendence

In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...
Seven Days

Soovin Kim Leads Performances of Rare Beethoven String Trios

The offseason Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival concerts feature five fun, challenging works from the composer’s early period.
Colorado Public Radio

This Beethoven string quartet passage always grabs my attention

It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Part 1

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 ...