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Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18

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Catalogue number90220708DI
Release date2015-08-20
Discs2
Orig. sample rate96000 Hz

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‘Only now have I learnt how to write quartets properly.’ So wrote Beethoven in 1801, having just finished his first set of string quartets at the surprisingly advanced age of 30: the competition of Haydn and Mozart must have been intimidating for the young composer. But these six Quartets op.18, which cost him great effort and extensive revision, already display much boldness and originality, from the dramatic echoes of Romeo and Juliet in no.1 to the astonishing programmatic finale of no.6, ‘La Malinconia’.

“Ce n’est que maintenant que j’ai appris à bien composer des quatuors.” Ainsi s’exprime Beethoven en 1801, alors qu’il vient de terminer son premier recueil de quatuors à cordes à l’âge plutôt avancé de 30 ans : la concurrence de Haydn et de Mozart devait être écrasante pour le jeune compositeur. Mais ces six Quatuors op.18, qui lui coûtèrent tant d’efforts et de remaniements, témoignent déjà d’audace et d’originalité, depuis les échos dramatiques du Roméo et Juliette de Shakespeare dans le n°1 jusqu'à l’étonnant finale programmatique du n°6, “La Malinconia”.

„… indem ich erst jezt recht quartetten zu schreiben weiß …” So schrieb Beethoven 1801, nachdem er gerade seine erste Sammlung von Streichquartetten im eher fortgeschrittenen Alter von 30 Jahren beendet hatte: Der Vergleich mit Haydn und Mozart muss dem jungen Komponisten mächtig Ehrfurcht eingejagt haben. Aber diese sechs Quartette op. 18, die ihn viel Mühe und Revisionsarbeit gekostet hatten, verraten bereits große Kühnheit und Originalität – vom dramatischen Nachklang von Shakespeares Romeo und Julia in Nummer 1 bis zum erstaunlich programmatischen Finale von Nummer 6, „La Malinconia“.
 
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Disc 1
 
  Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18 23:38
01 I. Allegro 07:26 $ 0.97 USD
02 II. Andante con moto 07:05 $ 0.92 USD
03 III. Allegro 02:38 $ 0.34 USD
04 IV. Presto 06:29 $ 0.84 USD
 
 
  Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 27:12
05 I. Allegro con brio 08:47 $ 1.14 USD
06 II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato 08:39 $ 1.12 USD
07 III. Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio 03:20 $ 0.43 USD
08 IV. Allegro 06:26 $ 0.84 USD
 
 
  Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18 23:32
09 I. Allegro 07:28 $ 0.97 USD
10 II. Adagio cantabile 06:02 $ 0.78 USD
11 III. Scherzo 04:45 $ 0.62 USD
12 IV. Allegro molto, quasi presto 05:17 $ 0.69 USD
 
 
Disc 2
 
  Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 23:13
13 I. Allegro ma non tanto 08:18 $ 1.08 USD
14 II. Andante scherzoso quasi Allegretto 07:21 $ 0.96 USD
15 III. Menuetto. Allegro - Trio 03:12 $ 0.42 USD
16 IV. Allegretto 04:22 $ 0.57 USD
 
 
  Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  String Quartet No .5 in A Major, Op. 18 29:23
17 I. Allegro 09:29 $ 1.23 USD
18 II. Menuetto - Trio 04:34 $ 0.59 USD
19 III. Andante cantabile 09:00 $ 1.17 USD
20 IV. Allegro 06:20 $ 0.82 USD
 
 
  Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 26:09
21 I. Allegro con brio 08:22 $ 1.09 USD
22 II. Adagio ma non troppo 06:29 $ 0.84 USD
23 III. Scherzo 03:26 $ 0.45 USD
24 IV. La Malinconia - Allegretto quasi Allegro 07:52 $ 1.02 USD
 
  Album total 153:07
ComposerLudwig van Beethoven
EnsembleJerusalem Quartet

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