Viola de Hoog: My colleagues in the Narratio Quartet and I have been immersed in all of Beethoven’s string quartets for over fifteen years now. We experience time and again how Beethoven explored and then overcame the limits of the Classical style and the instrumental challenges that were prevalent at the start of the nineteenth century along new pathways. Opus 95 is a great example of exactly this. Beethoven himself stated in a letter to Sir George Smart, at the time an important musician in England, ”The Quartet is written for a small circle of connoisseurs and is never to be performed in public.”
Each of the five late quartets, from Opus 127 onwards, explores new forms, modulating to remotely distant keys, presenting hitherto unprecedented melodic arches and containing what were, at the time, unusually detailed dynamic instructions; different ways in which Beethoven was tearing himself away from the familiar style of the day. Beethoven composed these five quartets in a remarkably brief period, between 1824 and 1826.
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曲目列表:
1.01. String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 I. Allegro con brio.flac
1.02. String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 II. Allegretto ma non troppo.flac
1.03. String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso.flac
1.04. String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 IV. Larghetto espressivo – Allegretto agitato.flac
1.05. String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127 I. Maestoso – Allegro.flac
1.06. String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127 II. Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile.flac
1.07. String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127 III. Scherzando vivace.flac
1.08. String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127 IV. Finale. Allegro.flac
2.01. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 I. Adagio ma non troppo – Allegro.flac
2.02. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 II. Presto.flac
2.03. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 III. Andante con moto ma non troppo.flac
2.04. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 IV. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai.flac
2.05. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 V. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo.flac
2.06. Grande Fugue in B-Flat Major, Op. 133 Allegro.flac
2.07. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 VI. Finale. Allegro.flac
3.01. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 I. Assai sostenuto – Allegro.flac
3.02. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 II. Allegro ma non tanto.flac
3.03. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 III. Molto adagio.flac
3.04. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace.flac
3.05. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 V. Allegro appassionato.flac
4.01. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 I. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo.flac
4.02. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 II. Allegro molto vivace.flac
4.03. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 II. Allegro moderato (recitative).flac
4.04. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 IV. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile.flac
4.05. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 V. Presto.flac
4.06. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 VI. Adagio quasi un poco andante.flac
4.07. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 VII. Allegro.flac
4.08. String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 I. Allegretto.flac
4.09. String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 II. Vivace.flac
4.10. String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 III. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo.flac
4.11. String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 IV. Der schwer gefa?te Entschlu?. Grave, ma non troppo tratto – Allegro.flac