Why should Beethoven’s string quartets have come to represent the pinnacle of achievement in western classical music? After all, this is a modest, intimate format involving just four players, better ...
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 ...
The third and fourth concerts in the Goldner String Quartet Beethoven cycle ticked off another two Opus 18s, the last of the Razumovsky works, and Opus 127 and 132. Until now, the pace and conviction ...