Complete String Quartets #1. "Inventions"
Launching its complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Cuarteto Casals presents this first installment featuring initial examples of the genre from each of the three key periods in the composer’s career: his formative years, the socalled ‘heroic’ middle period, and that of his artistic maturity. The ingenious juxtaposition shows how much his superhuman quest for perfection enriched a compositional language of breathtaking originality in tandem with a depth of expression without precedent in this genre, of which Beethoven is the uncontested master.
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Artists
- String Quartet
Composers
Contents
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN [1770-1827]
String Quartet no. 1 op.18 no. 1
Fa majeur / F major / F-Dur
· I. Allegro (8'30)
· II. Andante con moto (8'13)
· III. Allegro (3'04)
· IV. Presto (6'09)
String Quartet no. 3 op.18 no. 3
Ré majeur / D major / D-Dur
· I. Allegro (7'13)
· II. Andante con moto (6'21)
· III. Allegro (2'40)
· IV. Presto (5'55)
String Quartet no. 4 op.18 no. 4
ut mineur / C minor / c-Moll
· I. Allegro (7'44)
· II. Andante con moto (6'31)
· III. Allegro (3'09)
· IV. Presto (4'29)
Piano Sonata No.9 op.14 no. 1 (transcription for string quartet by Beethoven)
Fa majeur / F major / F-Dur
· I. Allegro moderato (6'04)
· II. Allegretto (2'56)
· III. Allegro (3'23)
String Quartet no. 7 op.59 no. 1
Fa majeur / F major / F-Dur
· I. Allegro (10'05)
· II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando (8'23)
· III. Adagio molto e mesto (11'50)
· IV. Thème russe. Allegro (7'38)
String Quartet no. 12 op.127
Mi bémol majeur / E-flat major / Es-Dur
· I. Maestoso. Allegro (5'55)
· II. Adagio ma non troppo e molto cantabile (13'59)
· III. Scherzo vivace. Trio (7'54)
· IV. Finale. Allegro (6'45)
String Quartet no. 16 op.135
Fa majeur / F major / F-Dur
· I. Allegretto (6'27)
· II. Vivace (3'12)
· III. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo (6'28)
· IV. Grave, ma non troppo tratto. Allegro (9'52)
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