Music Mountain 2012, #1
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Series: Music Mountain 2012 Chamber Music Concerts
Length: 01:56:01
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This program was recorded June 17, 2012 and features The St Petersburg String Quartet; Alla Aranovskaya, Violin, Boris Vayner, Viola, Evgeny Zvonnikov, Violin, Leonid Shukayev, Cello; Assisting Artist Misha Dichter, Piano
-Tchaikowsky: String Quartet in B Flat Major, Opus Post (1865)
-Beethoven: String Quartet in C Minor, Opus 18#4 (1798-1800)
-Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 (1864)
-Encore: Scherzo from the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Opus 57 (1940)
-HISTORIC ENCORE: Beethoven, Trio for Strings in Eflat major, Opus 3; played by the Jacques Tibot Trio (partial)
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Piece Description
This program was recorded June 17, 2012 and features The St Petersburg String Quartet; Alla Aranovskaya, Violin, Boris Vayner, Viola, Evgeny Zvonnikov, Violin, Leonid Shukayev, Cello; Assisting Artist Misha Dichter, Piano
-Tchaikowsky: String Quartet in B Flat Major, Opus Post (1865)
-Beethoven: String Quartet in C Minor, Opus 18#4 (1798-1800)
-Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 (1864)
-Encore: Scherzo from the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Opus 57 (1940)
-HISTORIC ENCORE: Beethoven, Trio for Strings in Eflat major, Opus 3; played by the Jacques Tibot Trio (partial)
Transcript
PROGRAM NOTES
STRING QUARTET IN C MINOR, OPUS 18 #4 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Curiously, no notebook sketches have ever been uncovered for Beethoven's fourth quartet, probably the last one composed in Op. 18. This has led to speculation that the composer did not go through his usual throes in working out the problems, or that he based it on a previous composition in which he had already resolved any problems. The only minor-key quartet in Op. 18, the C minor is probably the most popular work in the group; and like all of Beethoven's works in this key, it is a musical statement with an especially heightened dramatic tension throughout.
The six quartets of Opus 18 are Beethoven's first work in the string quartet form and have long been regarded as the high point of Beethoven's early creative life. Beethoven's hearing was steadily deteriorating and one can hear both the anger...
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