Beethoven, String Quartets, No. 6 Op. 18, No. 9 Op. 59, No. 3 Rasoumovsky, No. 17 Op. 133 Grosse Fuge
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- Genre: Classical
- Style: Chamber Music
- Label: Globe / World Music Office
A unique chance to hear the great changes that one master brought to the form.
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This disc includes one each of Beethoven's early, middle and late quartets, so you can easily hear the great changes he brought to the form — the long journey he took from his Op. 18 group, which expands on the quartet as Haydn and Mozart left it, to the Grosse Fuge, which still discomfits audiences today. The relentless wildness and abstruseness of this movement, originally intended as the finale to his Op. 130 quartet, led Beethoven's publisher to request that he write another less knotty finale (which arguably does fit better with Op. 130's other movements than does the Fuge, which stands well alone). The composer complied, and now musicians have a choice of finales. The grandeur of the Op. 59 No. 3 quartet culminates in a dazzling finale that never fails to rouse an audience to a standing ovation, particularly headlong and electric here in the Raphael Quartet's performance.
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String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6, I Allegro con brio |
6:24 |  |
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String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6, II Adagio ma non troppo |
8:26 | |
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String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6, III Scherzo. Allegro |
3:11 | |
| 04. | |
String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6, IV La Malinconia - Allegretto quasi allegro |
8:13 | |
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String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 ('Rasoumovsky'), I Introduzione. Andante con moto - Allegro vivace |
10:38 | |
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String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 ('Rasoumovsky'), II Andante con moto quasi allegretto |
10:21 | |
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String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 ('Rasoumovsky'), III Menuetto. Grazioso - Trio |
5:30 | |
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String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 ('Rasoumovsky'), IV Allegro molto |
5:52 | |
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Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133 (Grande Fugue, tantôt libre, tantôt recherchée), Overture. Allegro - Fuga |
16:33 | |
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