Beethoven: The ‘Late’ Quartets
Tokyo String Quartet
Virtuosity serving profundity? An unlikely concept perhaps but it happens here...It's the shared experience that tells - the dovetailing of the parts, of knowing when to blend or separate, when...
Beethoven: The ‘Late’ Quartets
Tokyo String Quartet
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Virtuosity serving profundity? An unlikely concept perhaps but it happens here...It's the shared experience that tells - the dovetailing of the parts, of knowing when to blend or separate, when...
About
The Tokyo String Quartet completes its acclaimed Beethoven cycle with the composer’s valdedictory quartets of 1825-26. As he looked ahead to structures and soundworlds then unimagined, and glanced back to the bedrock counterpoint of Western music, Beethoven turned inwards to his well of experience, much of it harsh, from which he drew this music of transcendent power.
Contents and tracklist
Work length16:18
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Work length43:34
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III. Molto adagio
Track length16:03
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Awards and reviews
November 2010
Virtuosity serving profundity? An unlikely concept perhaps but it happens here...It's the shared experience that tells - the dovetailing of the parts, of knowing when to blend or separate, when to assert or comply, all coming together in that tough test, the Grosse Fuge.
25th November 2010
The Tokyo Quartet continues to prize beauty of sound and smoothness of articulation above all other musical qualities, and there are few recordings of these works to match the sheer polish and unanimity of ensemble that are on display here.
