Beethoven - String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 'Harp'
Composed: 1809Genres:
Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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The Takács do a fine job here: controlled, well paced and impeccably balanced.
They manage to balance the music's vertical and horizontal aspects beautifully, long-breathed contrapuntal lines... —Awards:
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Building a Library, September 2002, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Chamber
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2002, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Chamber Music Recording
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I attended some of these sessions and can still recall the forensic care and commitment the Takács brought to these works. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Chamber Music Recording
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whether gut strings and period bows are generally your bag or not, you need to add this to your listening pile forthwith. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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the Calidore Quartet are well up to all the challenges...Their account of the opening Allegro in the first‘ Razumovsky is both exhilaratingly assertive and also careful to maintain the clean... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Chamber Music
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This is big, traditional playing, expressive and full-bodied, with plentiful vibrato and where each quartet member enters into a communal musical embrace with his or her colleagues. —
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The remastered Italian set still sounds well: their superiority in terms of sheer quartet playing is still striking: purity of intonation, perfectly blended tone and superb ensemble and attack.... —
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Their still youthful energy, allied with technical brilliance, brings excitement to the whirlwinds of turbulence and rapidly shifting emotions throughout, and makes for thrilling listening. —
