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Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartets Opp. 132 & 130/133


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Genres
Chamber
Instrumental

Features

Sleeve notes in English and German


Format:
2 CDs

Released:
April 2020

Catalogue No.:
ODE 1347-2D

EAN/UPC Code:
0761195134726

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Track listing

CD 1
42:41
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
42:41
1
I. Assai sostenuto – Allegro
9:20

2
II. Allegro ma non troppo
8:42

3
III. Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenden an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart: Molto adagio
15:55

4
IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace
2:09

5
V. Allegro appassionato
6:33


CD 2
44:16
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130
29:42
1
I. Adagio ma non troppo
12:47

2
II. Presto
2:03

3
III. Andante con moto ma non troppo
6:25

4
IV. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai
2:54

5
V. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo
5:31


6
Große Fuge, Op. 133 (Original finale of Op. 130)
14:34


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Complete description

New album of Beethoven’s late String Quartets by the prestigious Tetzlaff Quartett offers a fitting tribute to Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year. These monumental works which are given fresh interpretations by the quartet are among the greatest achievements in the history of Western art music written by a composer who had already largely lost contact with the world.  

 

When writing his final String Quartets (Op. 127–135) Beethoven was becoming increasingly ill and understood that he would never be able to recover fully. Beethoven had just completed his 9th Symphony when he received a commission to write String Quartets. What resulted was a string of totally unique masterpieces highly individual in their language and unusual in their form.   

 

String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 is a work in 5 movements with movements Nos. 1, 3, and 5 being the central bearers of meaning. The quartet’s hub and pivot is the middle part of the work, Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lidischen Tonart (Holy Song of Thanksgiving of a Convalescent to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode). The biographical context of this title is obvious and specifically refers to the severe bout of illness experienced by Beethoven from the middle of April to the beginning of May 1825.

 

The Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 is a work that has fascinated listeners for two centuries. Originally, String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 130 and Grosse Fuge Op. 133 were part of one and same work. Beethoven had written the Fuge as the final movement for the String Quartet, but his publisher urged him to write a new ending. For this album, Tetzlaff Quartett performs the String Quartet Op. 130 together with the Grosse Fuge, thus bringing the work back to its original form.

 

Praised by The New York Times for its “dramatic, energetic playing of clean intensity”, the Tetzlaff Quartett is one of today’s leading string quartets. Alongside their successful individual careers, Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff, Hanna Weinmeister and Elisabeth Kufferath have met since 1994 to perform several times each season in concerts that regularly receive great critical acclaim. They are frequent guests at international festivals such as the Berliner Festwochen, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Bremen Musikfest. Other recent highlights include performances at Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin and Paris’ Auditorium du Louvre, as well as a North America tour with concerts at Carnegie Hall, in San Francisco and Vancouver. The quartet has also performed at Brussels’ BOZAR, Wiener Musikverein, Herkulessaal München, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.


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