| Naxos | By the time Beethoven started work on his opus 130 quartet in 1825, he was profoundly deaf, an affliction that removed him from the world around. It was from the outset a revolutionary score, its size and strength so different from anything that had gone before. It had the unusual format of six movements, concluding with an enormous fugue. The first performance did not go well, the strength and enormous technical challenge of this finale being too great. Beethoven immediately set to work on a less demanding and more conventional finale, and in that form the work continued to be known, until in more recent times quartets have returned to the original score. To preserve this enormous movement, Beethoven published it as a separate work, the Grosse Fuge, and in that format it is often performed. |
| Disc No: 8.554593 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Beethoven - Complete String Quartets Vol. 8 | |
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| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van | Op.130 | String Quartet | Kodály Quartet Attila Falvay Szabó, violin Tamás Szabó, violin Gábor Fias, viola György Éder, cello | |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van | Op.133 | Grosse Fuge |