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Music Mountain 2011 #8

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Series: Music Mountain 2011 Chamber Music Concerts
Length: 01:56:00

This program was recorded July 30, 2011 and features the Penderecki String Quartet: Jeremy Bell, Violin; Christine Vlajk, Viola; Jerzy Kaplanek, Violin; Jacob Braun, Cello. Read the full description.
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2001_hall_small This program was recorded July 30, 2011 and features the Penderecki String Quartet: Jeremy Bell, Violin; Christine Vlajk, Viola; Jerzy Kaplanek, Violin; Jacob Braun, Cello.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, 1770-1827:  STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OPUS 135 (1826)
-Allegretto
-Vivace
-Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo
-Der schwer gefasste Entschluss: Muss es sein? Es muss sein!
-Es muss sein! Grave, ma non troppo tratto; Allegro

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, 1770-1827:  STRING QUARTET IN A MINOR, OPUS 132 (1825)
-Assai sostenuto;Allegro
-Allegro ma non tanto
-Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der
-lydischen tonart: Molto adagio; Neue Kraft fuhlend: Andante
-Alla Marcia, assai vivace
-Allegro appassionato

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This program was recorded July 30, 2011 and features the Penderecki String Quartet: Jeremy Bell, Violin; Christine Vlajk, Viola; Jerzy Kaplanek, Violin; Jacob Braun, Cello.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, 1770-1827:  STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OPUS 135 (1826)
-Allegretto
-Vivace
-Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo
-Der schwer gefasste Entschluss: Muss es sein? Es muss sein!
-Es muss sein! Grave, ma non troppo tratto; Allegro

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, 1770-1827:  STRING QUARTET IN A MINOR, OPUS 132 (1825)
-Assai sostenuto;Allegro
-Allegro ma non tanto
-Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der
-lydischen tonart: Molto adagio; Neue Kraft fuhlend: Andante
-Alla Marcia, assai vivace
-Allegro appassionato

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STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OPUS 135, by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Op. 135, the sixteenth and last complete string quartet that Beethoven wrote, differs from the other late quartets. The work has less emotional intensity and spirituality than the other late quartets, and a deeper sense of calmness and peaceful resignation. Those who hear in it a serene acceptance of the inevitability of death refer to a letter Beethoven sent with the quartet to his publisher, Moritz Schlesinger: “Here, my dear friend, is my last quartet, it will be the last; and indeed it has given me much trouble. For I could not bring myself to compose the last movement. But as your letters were reminding me of it, in the end I decided to compose it. And that is the reason why I have written the motto: The difficult decision - Must it be? - It must be, It must be?” For Beethoven, Op. 135 represent...
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