String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 : I. Allegro con brio String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 : II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 : III. Scherzo ...

String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1: II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1: ...

A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to a succession of student ensembles playing Beethoven’s Op 18 No 5. I hadn’t realised how an experience ...

, two of the past generation's greatest foursomes, would certainly be memorable. current summer season is all the more so, given that both ensembles are making their last CMNW appearances before major ...

The Tákacs Quartet are in the process of recording the complete Beethoven quartets; this is the second volume. The Op.18 quartets were Beethoven’s first foray into the genre and are too often ...

The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...

While conservative-minded critics found Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets harsh and ‘difficult’, the wider public was enthusiastic. No 4, in the quintessential Beethoven key of C minor, quickly became a ...