For the last two years of his life, Beethoven's world was dark and silent. His health was completely shot. And his emotional state was worse. He'd failed in his relationship with his nephew Karl, and ...

Volume one of the cycle includes Beethoven’s Op. 18 string quartets over 2 CDs – on CD 1, String Quartet in F major, Op.18 No.1; String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No. 3; and String Quartet in B-flat ...

This Thursday, Da Camera presents its second concert in their chamber music series this season: Beethoven Perspectives with the London-based Elias String Quartet. For this concert, the group will ...

The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary year is an important one. They choose not to proceed set by set through ...

String Quartet No. 6 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Belcea Quartet String Quartet No. 12 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Belcea Quartet String Quartet No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Belcea ...

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The Miró Quartet returns to UB this fall to perform the first half of this season’s Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle. All of Miró’s concerts will take place in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, ...

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 ...

Beethoven wanted to get his first set of string quartets just right. He was in his 20s, and they sounded a bit like late Haydn's. And why wouldn't they? The classical master was Beethoven's teacher.

In the Op.18/2 Quartet one can still sense Haydn and Mozart coursing through Beethoven’s veins, but just 10 years later Op.95’s no-compromise, firebrand originality fearlessly throws off the shackles ...