Special offer. Beethoven: The Late String Quartets, Opp. 127 & 131
Brentano String Quartet: Mark Steinberg, Serena Canin (violins), Misha Amory (viola) & Nina Maria Lee (cello)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
What is so satisfying about these performances recorded at Princeton University is the overall warmth of the playing, with speeds ideally chosen and never forced, with natural rubato and shading,...
Special offer. Beethoven: The Late String Quartets, Opp. 127 & 131
Brentano String Quartet: Mark Steinberg, Serena Canin (violins), Misha Amory (viola) & Nina Maria Lee (cello)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
What is so satisfying about these performances recorded at Princeton University is the overall warmth of the playing, with speeds ideally chosen and never forced, with natural rubato and shading,...
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Founded in 1992, the New York-based Brentano Quartet is known for its interpretations combining perfect technique and matchless musicality. Those qualities are even more obvious in this series of late Beethoven quartets with this first volume bringing together the Op. 127 and 131.
This pure crystal of intelligence and brilliance will doubtless constitute a milestone.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMarch 2012Editor's Choice
March 2012
What is so satisfying about these performances recorded at Princeton University is the overall warmth of the playing, with speeds ideally chosen and never forced, with natural rubato and shading, and with wonderfully sustained pianissimos...This is a disc that makes one want to hear the Brentanos in the other late Beethoven quartets. Anyone who fancies this generous coupling need not hesitate.
February 2012
This was Beethoven breaking new ground with the first of what he categorized as his 'late' quartets [Op. 127]. The Brentano Quartet tries to emphasize the shock...It is an understandable approach, but it does sound rather overdone...The Brentanos seem more naturally at home with the great C sharp minor Quartet...It is a splendidly conceived and splendidly executed performance.
