Narratio Quartet - Beethoven: Early String Quartets (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro
02. String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18: II. Andante con moto
03. String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18: III. Allegro
04. String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18: IV. Presto
05. String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro con brio
06. String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18: II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
07. String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18: III. Scherzo Allegro molto - Trio
08. String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18: IV. Allegro

CD2
01. String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro
02. String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18: II. Adagio cantabile - Allegro - Tempo I
03. String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18: III. Scherzo Allegro - Trio
04. String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18: IV. Allegro molto - quasi Presto
05. String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro
06. String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18: II. Menuetto - Trio
07. String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18: III. Andante cantabile (con variazioni)
08. String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18: IV. Allegro

CD3
01. String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18: I. Allegro ma non tanto
02. String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Andante scherzoso quasi Allegretto
03. String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18: III. Menuetto Allegro - Trio
04. String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18: IV. Allegretto - Prestissimo
05. String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro con brio
06. String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: II. Adagio ma non troppo
07. String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: III. Scherzo Allegro - Trio
08. String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: IV. La Malinconia - Questo pezzo si deve trattare colla più gran delicatezza - Adagio - Allegretto quasi Allegro



Viola de Hoog: I have often wondered which of the “great spirits” might provide a new impulse and a different direction for what we call classical music in this early part of the twenty-first century. Narratio Quartet 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 difficulties that were prevalent at the start of the nineteenth century. What we hear has been enriched by the passing of two centuries and the gaining of wider experience. Progress indeed, might be your first thought, but perhaps we have also lost something along the way? The ability to feel how groundbreaking and visionary this music was in those days. My colleagues and I feel that using instruments that are comparable to those of the time has helped us enormously in getting somewhat closer to the surprise, the bewilderment and the rapture that the musicians in Schuppanzigh’s quartet must have felt when they first came face to face with the newest and most innovative chamber music of the day.

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