Beethoven: Quartets II
- Beethoven: Quartets, Vol. 2
- Alban Berg Quartett
EMI Classics 54592 (4 CDs)
Contents:
String Quartet No. 2 in G, Op. 18
No. 2
- Allegro
- Adagio cantabile
- Scherzo (Allegro) & Trio
- Allegro molto, quasi presto
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op.
95
- Allegro con brio
- Allegretto ma non troppo
- Allegro assai vivace, ma serioso
- Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato - Allegro
String Quartet No. 5 in A, Op. 18
No. 5
- Allegro
- Menuetto & Trio
- Andante cantabile
- Allegro
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op.
132
- Allegro sostenuo - Allegro
- Allegro ma non tanto
- Molto adagio "Heiliger Dankgesang"
- Alla Marcia, assai vivace
- Allegro appassionato
- Große Fuge in Bb, Op. 133
String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59
No. 2 "Rasumovsky"
- Allegro
- Molto adagio
- Allegretto
- Finale (Presto)
String Quartet No. 6 in Bb, Op. 18
No. 6
- Allegro con brio
- Adagio, ma non troppo
- Scherzo (Allegro) & Trio
- Adagio (La Malinconia) - Allegretto quasi Allegro
String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135
- Allegretto
- Vivace
- Lento assai e cantante tranquillo
- Grave, ma non troppo tratto - Allegro
String Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. 59
No. 3 "Rasumovsky"
- Introduzione (Andante con moto) - Allegro vivace
- Andante con moto quasi allegretto
- Menuetto (Grazioso) & Trio
- Allegro molto
- Speech
- Encore: Op.130 - V: Cavatina
Performers: Günter Pichler (violin), Gerhard Schulz (violin),
Thomas Kakuska (viola), Valentin Erben (cello)
Playing time: 259'
Recording date: June 1989 (Vienna)
This cycle was recorded live over the course of consecutive
evening concerts.
These performance are vibrant, and really set themselves above
the other complete sets. There are certainly better examples if
one goes disc by disc. I think being live helps, because these
quartets are rather uneven.
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T. M. McComb