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 ...

String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: II. Presto String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: IV. Alla ...

Audiences at the big concert venues of Manhattan — Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Met Opera — are often unenthusiastic or even sleepy, what my Sicilian family would call mezza morta: half-dead.

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Two musical forms dominated Beethoven’s mind and rounded every chapter of his life: the piano sonata was his vanguard. The string quartet was the ultimate expression. Beethoven’s five late quartets, ...

String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: I. Maestoso - Allegro - . String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: II. Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat ...

A soulful encore by an ensemble fulfilling a long-held dream. The Borodin Quartet has existed for decades and passed the baton on over the generations, yet still has somehow kept its characteristic ...

Norway’s all-female Vertavo Quartet has waited a long time to record Beethoven. The group, formed in 1984, decided to jump in at the deep end, and taped the late Quartet in B flat two years ago, with ...

There comes a time in the life of most string quartets when, for better or worse, Beethoven must be confronted. For the acclaimed Belcea Quartet (named after its first violinist Corina Belcea), that ...

Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, throughout 2020 Composer Of The Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music. This week ...