Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Ehnes Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Onyx
Catalogue: ONYX4216
Release: 2021
Size: 924 MB
Recovery: +3%
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String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 ‘Harp’
01. I. Poco Adagio – Allegro
02. II. Adagio ma non troppo
03. III. Presto – Più presto quasi prestissimo
04. IV. Allegretto con Variazione
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
05. I. Allegro con brio
06. II. Allegretto ma non troppo
07. III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso
08. IV. Larghetto espressivo – Allegretto agitato – Allegro
This, the third in the series of Beethoven’s late quartets from the Ehnes Quartet deviates from the official ‘late’ works to include the last two of Beethoven’s ‘middle period’ quartets: The sunny and amiable E flat, known as the ‘Harp’, and the terse and irascible F Minor, known not surprisingly, as ‘Serioso’.
Beethoven had a habit of working on two works of wildly differing emotional ranges at the same time – never more clearly illustrated as in these two masterly quartets.