Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Part 3

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Grotesque", "monstrous", "chaotic", "madness"... When audiences ...
The Irish Times

Chiaroscuro Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos 4-6

The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...
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 ...
BroadwayWorld

The Ariel Quartet to Release Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Over Two Years

Volume one of the cycle includes Beethoven’s Op. 18 string quartets over 2 CDs – on CD 1, String Quartet in F major, Op.18 No.1; String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No. 3; and String Quartet in B-flat ...
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.
Forbes

A Data Science Analysis Finds Beethoven's Style In His String Quartets

Roll over, Beethoven, the data scientists are here. What is it that makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Fans of his music can recognize his style, and music theorists have thoroughly studied his ...
Classic FM

Beethoven - String quartets Vol. 1: Endellion Quartet

In the Op.18/2 Quartet one can still sense Haydn and Mozart coursing through Beethoven’s veins, but just 10 years later Op.95’s no-compromise, firebrand originality fearlessly throws off the shackles ...
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, ...
The Hindu

Humanism at the core of Beethoven’s music

Must he stay or should he leave? Wilhelm Furtwangler, who many consider the greatest conductor ever, agonised over a decision on which he felt much depended. After seizing power in 1933, the Nazis had ...
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 ...