Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13, Op. 130 & Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 Ehnes Quartet

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130:
• 1 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: I. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro 13:31
• 2 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: II. Presto 01:55
• 3 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo. Poco scherzoso 06:36
• 4 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: IV. Alla danza tedesca: Allegro assai 03:46
• 5 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: V. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo 06:50
• 6 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: VI. Finale. Allegro 10:14
• Ludwig van Beethoven:
• 7 Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 14:56
• Total Runtime 57:48

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Like many musical projects planned for 2020, the plans of the Ehnes Quartet to record Beethoven’s late quartets underwent a drastic revision. Rather than cancel the project, some ingenious technology was employed. James Ehnes takes up the story "Our quartet was greatly looking forward to a week of recording in the United Kingdom in August 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible for us to travel to the UK, and for our UK-based producer, Simon Kiln, to travel to us. We were, however, able to take advantage of the wonders of modern technology by recording in the USA with Simon (producer Simon Kiln) monitoring the sessions in real time in London.

A fortunate benefit of not traveling overseas for these recordings was that the days we had scheduled for travel become additional recording days, allowing us to record all of Beethoven’s string quartets from Op. 74 onwards. The four albums we recorded during this intense two-week period will always be treasured reminders for us of a brief, bucolic window of artistic fulfilment during a terribly challenging period for the world".

Ehnes Quartet:
James Ehnes, violin
Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin
Richard Yongjae O’Neill, viola
Edward Arron, cello

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