(2CD)貝多芬: 弦樂四重奏第二集, 作品18,59,130,133
多利克弦樂四重奏
For this second volume of Beethovens string quartets, the Doric String Quartet has combined one middle period, one late, and two early quartets to create a programme that works on its own terms, as well as forming part of the complete cycle. The musicians start off with a vivid performance of Op. 18 No. 2, following it with the Quartet, Op. 130, in which, as finale, they perform the GroBe Fugue (Op. 133), as Beethoven long contemplated it. They have appended the alternative finale, first published with Op. 130, thus allowing the listener to choose either version. Op. 18 No. 5 in A major is then followed by Op. 59 No. 2 in E minor. Op. 18, Beethovens first set of quartets, often show influences from the quartets of Haydn and Mozart, albeit very much filtered through Beethovens original artistic sensibility. The second set, the three 'Razumovsky Quartets, Op. 59, was written in a golden period of the composers creative life (alongside the Fourth Symphony, Violin Concerto, and Fidelio) and shows both development from the earlier set and a powerful distinctness. Although mis-understood (or found incomprehensible) by their first audiences, Beethovens late quartets have become universally admired as among the pinnacles of western art music. Stravinsky considered the GroBe Fuge 'an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever.
CD1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Complete String Quartets, Volume 2
String Quartet, Op.18 No.2 (1798-99) 27:15
in G Major • in G-Dur • en sol majeur
A Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Regnant de Lobkowitz etc. etc.
1.I Allegro 7:41
2.II Adagio cantabile - Allegro - Tempo I 7:12
3.III Scherzo. Allegro - Trio - Scherzo da capo 4:35
4.IV Allegro molto, quasi Presto 5:31
String Quartet, Op.130 / 133 (1825) 48:30
5.I Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro - Tempo I - Allegro - 13:53
6.II Presto - L''istesso tempo - Tempo I 1:52
7.III Poco scherzoso. Andante con moto ma non troppo - Non troppo 7:14
8.IV Alla fanza tedesca. Allegro assai 2:43
9.V Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo 7:19
10.VI GroBe Fuge, Op.133 (1825) 15:28
11.Replacement Finale, published with String Quartet, Op.130 (1826) 10:37
Total time: 84:05
CD2
String Quartet, Op.18 No.5 (1799-1800) 31:47
1.I Allegro 10:25
2.II Menuetto - Trio - Menuetto da capo 4:36
3.III Andante cantabile - 10:02
Variazione I -
Variazione II -
Variazione III -
Variazione IV -
Variaazione V -
Poco adagio
4. IV Allegro 6:43
String Quartet, Op.59 No.2 (1806) 39:58
5. I Allegro 14:27
6. II Molto adagio. Si tratta questo pezzo [con] molto di sentimento 13:07
7. III Allegretto - Maggiore (Theme russe) - 7:47
8. IV Finale. Presto - Piu presto 5:17
Total time: 72:24
Chamber: Doric String Quartet