Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Part 1

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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Early String Quartets - Part 3

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Endless invention, and a vision of things to come. Beethoven's last two string quartets in his early ...
The New York Times

A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ariel Quartet gives deeply affecting performance of Beethoven’s final masterpiece

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat major Op. 18 No. 6. Budapest String Quartet (Mono, 1952) Sony Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110. Borodin String Quartet ...
BroadwayWorld

Calidore String Quartet Completes Beethoven Project with EARLY QUARTETS

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On January 24, 2025, Signum Classics will release BEETHOVEN: The Early ...
Los Angeles Times

Pianist Jonathan Biss and the Calidore quartet give Beethoven 250 a surprising launch

The line of cars expecting to enter the underground parking of the Colburn School was long and stationary. A Beethoven concert was to begin in 10 minutes. It took another frustratingly full 25 minutes ...
NPR

Beethoven's String Quartet Of Transcendence

In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...
Colorado Public Radio

Takacs Quartet’s Edward Dusinberre On A ‘Dangerous’ And Thrilling Beethoven Piece

The Takacs Quartet. Left to right: Károly Schranz, second violin; Geraldine Walther, viola; András Fejer, cello; Edward Dusinberre, first violin. When Ludwig van Beethoven unveiled his Seventh String ...
Colorado Public Radio

This Beethoven string quartet passage always grabs my attention

It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...
The New York Times

17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Modern living forced me to grab a movement or two at a time, while commuting, cooking dinner and putting away laundry. By Daniel J.
BroadwayWorld

Dover Quartet Completes Its Beethoven Cycle On Cedille Records October 14

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet, whose credits include a host of prestigious ...
Los Angeles Times

Emerson String Quartet shows off new face with Beethoven

“Tomorrow they will wear another face,” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson began the closing couplet of his poem “Experience.” And now, the Emerson String Quartet wears, for the first time in 34 years, ...