Beethoven: The Middle String Quartets
Cypress String Quartet
[These accounts] afford helpful alternative insights into these works, and the Cypress plays with commendable skill and verve…their playing is always fastidiously attentive to every detail of...
Beethoven: The Middle String Quartets
Cypress String Quartet
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[These accounts] afford helpful alternative insights into these works, and the Cypress plays with commendable skill and verve…their playing is always fastidiously attentive to every detail of...
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Following three acclaimed releases for AVIE surveying works by Dvořák, Schubert and contemporary Americans, The San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet turns to the seminal string quartets of Beethoven, performing the five quartets from the composer’s middle period.
Formed in 1996, the Cypresses added Beethoven to their repertoire early on. Their signature sound, which is clear and transparent, built up from the bottom register and layered like a pyramid, lends itself beautifully to the Middle String Quartets - the three “Rasumovskys,” the “Harp,” and the “Serioso”.
Contents and tracklist
Work length40:27
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- Cypress String Quartet
I. Allegro
Track length10:18
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III. Adagio molto e mesto
Track length12:34
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Work length34:40
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- Cypress String Quartet
II. Molto Adagio
Track length12:29
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Work length31:45
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- Cypress String Quartet
I. Introduzione. Andante con moto – Allegro vivace
Track length11:02
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- Cypress String Quartet
- Cypress String Quartet
Awards and reviews
March 2015
[These accounts] afford helpful alternative insights into these works, and the Cypress plays with commendable skill and verve…their playing is always fastidiously attentive to every detail of phrasing and dynamics, and their unanimity of attack and instrumental blend seems faultless.
