Artist: Narratio Quartet Title: Beethoven: Late String Quartets Year Of Release: 2025 Label: Challenge Classics Genre: Classical Quality: flac lossless (tracks) 24bits - 44.1kHz Total Time: 04:00:20 Total Size: 2.29 gb Tracklist CD1 01. String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95: I. Allegro con brio 02. String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95: II. Allegretto ma non troppo 03. String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95: III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso 04. String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95: IV. Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato 05. String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: I. Maestoso - Allegro 06. String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: II. Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile 07. String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: III. Scherzando vivace 08. String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: IV. Finale. Allegro CD2 01. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: I. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro 02. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: II. Presto 03. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: III. Andante con moto ma non troppo 04. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: IV. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai 05. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: V. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo 06. Grande Fugue in B-Flat Major, Op. 133: Allegro 07. String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: VI. Finale. Allegro 01. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: I. Assai sostenuto - Allegro 02. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: II. Allegro ma non tanto 03. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: III. Molto adagio 04. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace 05. String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: V. Allegro appassionato CD3 01. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: I. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo 02. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: II. Allegro molto vivace 03. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: II. Allegro moderato (recitative) 04. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: IV. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile 05. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: V. Presto 06. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: VI. Adagio quasi un poco andante 07. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: VII. Allegro 08. String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: I. Allegretto 09. String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: II. Vivace 10. String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: III. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo 11. String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: IV. Der schwer gefaßte Entschluß. Grave, ma non troppo tratto - Allegro The last instalment in the Narratio Quartet's revolutionary interpretation of Beethoven's String Quartets. This last 4CD box contains all the late Quartets, from opus 95 to opus 135. Viola de Hoog: My colleagues in the Narratio Quartet and I 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 challenges that were prevalent at the start of the nineteenth century along new pathways. Opus 95 is a great example of exactly this. Beethoven himself stated in a letter to Sir George Smart, at the time an important musician in England, "The Quartet is written for a small circle of connoisseurs and is never to be performed in public." Each of the five late quartets, from Opus 127 onwards, explores new forms, modulating to remotely distant keys, presenting hitherto unprecedented melodic arches and containing what were, at the time, unusually detailed dynamic instructions; different ways in which Beethoven was tearing himself away from the familiar style of the day.Beethoven composed these five quartets in a remarkably brief period, between 1824 and 1826