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Beethoven Quartet Cycle
The Calidore String Quartet performs the complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets. One hour before each of the performances, join Co-Artistic Director David Finckel for Inside the Quartets.
The Calidore String Quartet performs the complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets. One hour before each of the performances, join Co-Artistic Director David Finckel for Inside the Quartets.
With his first string quartets, Beethoven delivered a body of music like nothing heard before: more daring, dramatic, and virtuosic. Amateur aristocrats realized these quartets were beyond their abilities, and ...
With his first string quartets, Beethoven delivered a body of music like nothing heard before: more daring, dramatic, and virtuosic. Amateur aristocrats realized these quartets were beyond their abilities, and ...
Beethoven’s three Razumovsky quartets were composed for the Russian ambassador to Vienna. These works moved the genre to a new level, testing the virtuosity and stamina of any string quartet. ...
Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1809 bombardment of Vienna heralded a change in Beethoven’s personal life, and not for the better. Beset by increasing deafness and other health issues, his misfortunes would soon ...
This performance presents two mammoth works that share a mysterious motivic link of four notes. In a single concert, two of Beethoven’s most unique creations are heard: his futuristic Grosse ...
The final chapter of the Beethoven Quartet cycle is its most consequential, summing up the composer as no other program could. In the seven-movement op. 131, we experience the culmination ...