Many other Beethoven recordings exist by the Allegri, but this long established group has reinvented itself several times: it's now on (at least) its fifth incarnation. The current line-up plays with ...

The numbering may suggest otherwise but Op 18 No 3 was the first string quartet Beethoven composed. One theory for the change of order is that this D major work was too strange, too full of struggles ...

1 Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Opera Theatre Of St. Louis When British label CORO Connections released their first recording from Toronto's Eybler Quartet last spring, they may have been ...

The key of C minor generally found Beethoven in passionate mood – think of the ‘Pathétique’ piano sonata, for example – and the fourth quartet is no exception. From the stabbing accents of the very ...

The Tákacs Quartet are in the process of recording the complete Beethoven quartets; this is the second volume. The Op.18 quartets were Beethoven’s first foray into the genre and are too often ...

String Quartet No. 1 Tokyo Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Tokyo Quartet String Quartet No. 3 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Tokyo Quartet ...

A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to a succession of student ensembles playing Beethoven’s Op 18 No 5. I hadn’t realised how an experience ...

Laura Tunbridge recommends her favourite recording of Beethoven's String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1. In Vienna at the end of the 18th century, Beethoven was in his late 20s, the supreme keyboard ...

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The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...