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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 ...

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 ...

UB’s annual Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle gets into full swing next month with four concerts taking place featuring renowned string quartets, each hailing from a distinct international city.

The Abel Quartet, a string quartet, is embarking on an ambitious journey to perform all 16 of Beethoven's string quartets over approximately seven months. According to the concert planning company Mok ...

Jan Grüning, violist for the Ariel Quartet, likens the task of playing all the works Beethoven wrote for string quartets to climbing Mount Everest. At each stopping point along the climb, a different ...

If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

UB may be the only place in the country — or the world, according to Department of Music staff — that presents all 16 Beethoven string quartets annually. The honor this year goes to the ...

The three ‘Rasumovsky’ quartets, named for the Russian count who commissioned them, show Beethoven starting to extend the expressive capabilities of the string quartet, to paint with brighter colours ...