Beethoven - String Quartet Op.130, Grosse Fugue
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Label: Simax
Cat No: PSC1265
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 1st February 2010
Contents
Artists
Vertavo String QuartetWorks
Grosse Fuge in B flat major, op.133String Quartet no.13 in B flat major, op.130
Artists
Vertavo String QuartetAbout
Formed in 1984, the Vertavo String Quartet is now established as one of the leading European string quartets, and since then they have collaborated with artists like Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Paul Lewis and Leif Ove Andsnes. Among the many contemporary composers they have worked with are Ligeti, Adès, Widmann, Nørgård, Edlund and Asheim. The group have received a number of international awards for their recordings.
The six-movement String Quartet Op.130 was written between August and November 1825 during a rare period of relatively good health in the composer’s later years. Beethoven’s original idea was to have the Grosse Fugue as the finale of the Op.130. Only after the Quartet was completed and premiered did he listen to the urgings of friends and issue the fugue as a separate composition. He then wrote a new and more light-hearted finale for the Op.130 Quartet, a movement which turned out to be his very last composition.
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