Music Mountain #15, recorded 9/5/09
Series: Music Mountain 2009 Chamber Music Concerts
From: Music Mountain
Length: 01:56:01
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String Quartet In F Minor, Opus 95 by Ludwig van Beethoven
-Allegro con brio
-Allegretto ma non troppo
-Allegro assai vivace ma serioso
-Larghetto: Allegretto agitato
Grosse Fuge, Opus 133 by Ludwig van Beethoven
INTERMISSION
String Quartet In B Flat Major, Opus 130 by Ludwig van Beethoven
-Adagio ma non troppo; Allegro
-Presto
-Andante con moto, ma non troppo
-Alla danza tedesca: Allegro assai
-Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo
-Finale: Allegro
HISTORIC ENCLORE
Prokofieff String Quartet #2 in F, opus 92 played by the Gordon String Quartet
SECOND HISTORIC ENCORE
Haydn String QUartet in C major, opus 20 #2 played by the Avalon String Quartet (partial)
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Related Pieces
Piece Description
String Quartet In F Minor, Opus 95 by Ludwig van Beethoven
-Allegro con brio
-Allegretto ma non troppo
-Allegro assai vivace ma serioso
-Larghetto: Allegretto agitato
Grosse Fuge, Opus 133 by Ludwig van Beethoven
INTERMISSION
String Quartet In B Flat Major, Opus 130 by Ludwig van Beethoven
-Adagio ma non troppo; Allegro
-Presto
-Andante con moto, ma non troppo
-Alla danza tedesca: Allegro assai
-Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo
-Finale: Allegro
HISTORIC ENCLORE
Prokofieff String Quartet #2 in F, opus 92 played by the Gordon String Quartet
SECOND HISTORIC ENCORE
Haydn String QUartet in C major, opus 20 #2 played by the Avalon String Quartet (partial)
Transcript
PROGRAM NOTES
An all Beethoven ConcertL
STRING QUARTET IN F MINOR, OPUS 95, “SERIOSO” (1810)
Beethoven’s Opus 95 Quartet is the only one Beethoven supplied with a subtitle “Serioso,” an obvious reference to the prevailing somber mood of the piece. The composer’s growing deafness, precarious health, frustration in love, financial insecurity and unhappy family life combined to make him angry, bitter and deeply despondent. In a letter to his old friend Dr. Franz Wegeler on May 2, 1810 he wrote “If I had not read somewhere that no one should quit life voluntarily while he could still do something worthwhile, I would have been dead long ago and certainly by my own hand. Oh, life is so beautiful but for me it is poisoned forever.”
Although quite short, the “Serioso” Quartet, which Mendelssohn called Beethoven’s most characteristic work, is certainly not a miniature. It is a compressed, con...
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Timing and Cues
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