If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Volume one of the cycle includes Beethoven's Op. 18 string quartets over 2 ...

The Music: Beethoven’s Quartet No.12 unleashed his final sequence of five string quartets that reinvented the form as a conceptual work-in-progress – structures were filleted, harmonies stretched, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The six string quartets which make up his Op. 18 were composed in Beethoven’s late twenties, and consequently imbued with less of the youthful enthusiasm and optimism one might expect of a composer’s ...

WITH two great performances in their established pattern of coupling one early and one late quartet, the Quartetto di Cremona’s magnificent survey of Beethoven’s complete String Quartets moves ...

When we finally see the return of concerts, shared experiences by full audiences, everyone together, the moment will be less for fireworks than for thanksgiving. Let us begin, then, with Beethoven as ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

The line of cars expecting to enter the underground parking of the Colburn School was long and stationary. A Beethoven concert was to begin in 10 minutes. It took another frustratingly full 25 minutes ...

The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet's Beethoven string quartet cycle was recorded between 1998 and 2011. The recordings cover a change of personnel (of violin and viola, in 2007), and the group's ...