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Product Identifiers
Record LabelAudite, Audt
UPC4022143926814
eBay Product ID (ePID)11046053503
Product Key Features
Release Year2013
FormatSuper Audio CD (SACD)
GenreClassical
ArtistBeethoven / Quartetto Di Cremona
Release TitleComplete String Quartets 2
Dimensions
Item Height0.37 in
Item Weight0.16 lb
Item Length5.50 in
Item Width5.03 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks8
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Allegro 1.2 Molto Adagio 1.3 Allegretto - Maggiore (Theme Russe) 1.4 Finale. Presto - Piu Presto 1.5 Maestoso - Allegro 1.6 Adagio, Ma Non Troppo E Molto Cantabile - Andante Con Moto - Adagio Molto Espressivo 1.7 Scherzando Vivace - Presto - Tempo 1 1.8 Finale - Allegro Comodo
Number of Discs1
NotesFollowing the successful release of Volume I in the complete edition of Beethoven String Quartets with the 'Quartetto di Cremona', audite now continues the series. The choice of works for the second volume refers to two periods during which Beethoven turned away for good from the culture of music amateurs of the late eighteenth century. The Quartets Op. 59 of 1806, commissioned by Count Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky, were written for Vienna's most famous professional string quartet, led by Ignaz Schuppanzigh. Beethoven's musical language is no longer balanced and well-seasoned, as that of his contemporaries, but is extreme in every respect: ruthless and with feeling, dramatically operatic and full of contrapuntal finesse. The 'Quartetto di Cremona' contrasts this work from Beethoven's mature phase with his opus 127 of 1824. It is this work in E flat major with which the already deaf Beethoven began his series of late works, received by his contemporaries with alarm, but by posterity with admiration. For a long time after the dissolution of the 'Quartetto Italiano' in the 1980s, no Italian string quartets seemed to come forward to seek international renown. The four young musicians from Genoa, however, who formed the 'Quartetto di Cremona' following their studies in the violin making town of Cremona, have revived Italian string quartet playing. Since it's foundation in 2000, the ensemble has developed into the best quartet of it's country, and also into one of the most prestigious and imaginative quartets within Europe. This status is documented by the audite recording series of the complete Beethoven String Quartets which was started one year ago - a touchstone for all string quartets in it's textual dimension, as well as in it's technical demands.