Beethoven: Complete String Quartets

Alexander String Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets

Beethoven: Complete String Quartets
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Artist: Alexander String Quartet
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Music Label: Arte Nova Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I. Allegro Con Brio
  2. II. Adagio Affettuoso Ed Appasionato
  3. III. Scherzo: Allegro Molto
  4. IV. Allegro
  5. I. Allegro
  6. II. Menuetto
  7. III. Andante Cantabile. Theme - Variationen I-V. Coda (Poco Adagio)
  8. IV. Allegro
Music CD 2
  1. I. Allegro
  2. II. Adagio Cantabile
  3. III. Scherzo (Allegro) & Trio
  4. IV. Allegro Molto, Quasi Presto
  5. I. Allegro Con Brio
  6. II. Adagio, Ma Non Troppo
  7. III. Scherzo (Allegro) & Trio
  8. IV. La Malinconia: Adagio. Allegretto Quasi Allegro
Music CD 3
  1. I. Allegro
  2. II. Andante Con Moto
  3. III. Allegro
  4. IV. Presto
  5. I. Allegro Ma Non Tanto
  6. II. Scherzo: Andante Scherzoso Quasi Allegretto
  7. III. Menuetto (Allegretto) & Trio
  8. IV. Allegro
Music CD 4
  1. I. Allegro
  2. II. Allegretto Vivace E Sempre Scherzando
  3. III. Adagio Molto E Mesto
  4. IV. Allegro (Theme Russe)
  5. I. Poco Adagio. Allegro
  6. II. Adagio Ma Non Troppo
  7. III. Presto
  8. IV. Allegretto Con Variazioni
Music CD 5
  1. I. Allegro
  2. II. Molto Adagio
  3. III. Allegretto
  4. IV. Finale: Presto
  5. I. Introduzione: Andante Con Moto. Allegro Vivace
  6. II. Andante Con Moto Quasi Allegretto
  7. III. Menuetto: Grazioso
  8. IV. Allegro Molto
Music CD 6
  1. I. Allegro Con Brio
  2. II. Allegretto, Ma Non Troppo
  3. III. Allegro Assai Vivace Ma Serioso. Piu Allegro
  4. IV. Larghetto Espressivo. Allegro Agitato. Allegro
  5. I. Maestoso. Allegro
  6. II. Adagio, Ma Non Troppo E Molto Cantabile
  7. III. Scherzando Vivace
  8. IV. Finale
Music CD 7
  1. I. Adagio Ma Non Troppo. Allegro
  2. II. Presto
  3. III. Andante Con Moto Ma Non Troppo
  4. IV. Alla Danza Tedesca. Allegro Assai
  5. V. Cavatina: Adagio Molto Espressivo
  6. VI. Finale: Allegro
  7. Grosse Fuge In B Flat Major, Op. 133
Music CD 8
  1. I. Adagio Ma Non Troppo E Molto Espressivo
  2. II. Allegro Molto Vivace
  3. III. Allegro Moderato
  4. IV. Andante, Ma Non Troppo E Molto Cantabile
  5. V. Presto
  6. VI. Adagio Quasi Un Poco Andante
  7. VII. Allegro
  8. I. Allegretto
  9. II. Vivace
  10. III. Lento Assai, Cantate E Tranquillo
  11. IV. Grave, Ma Non Troppo Tratto. Allegro
Music CD 9
  1. I. Assai Sostenuto. Allegro
  2. II. Allegro Ma Non Tanto
  3. III. Molto Adagio - Heiliger Dankgesang Eines Genesenen An Die Gottheit, In Der Lydischen Tonart
  4. IV. Alla Marcia, Assai Vivace
  5. V. Allegro Appassionato

Music reviews of Beethoven: Complete String Quartets

Music Review: superlative accounts of the Beethoven quartets
Rating: 5 Stars

The Alexander String Quartet doing the Beethoven quartets manages to combine a robust, cohesive ensemble tone with a lively sense of color and a deep, unshakable poise, and their controlled exuberance produced superlative accounts for a bargain of a price. Even if you already own a number of Beethoven - Complete String Quartet sets, this one features the viola, much like the Vegh set featured the cello. And the sound quality is excellent!

If you don't believe my praises, then check out these quotes...

*** These are passionate, hold-your-hats recordings that invited comparisons to the Budapest String Quartet. I haven't heard comparable electricity from anybody else in the intervening years, in a style where finesse is secondary to unbridled fury, force and velocity. It was the most exciting quartet experience in years. Their rhythm and speed were dazzling. ~ SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

*** Every phrase and line, every textural effect, every structural element, every sforzando, every legato, every hairpin dynamic shading, every articulation-in short, every musical detail-was performed so precisely, in so shapely a fashion, and in such perfect balance with every other detail, that I felt my mind irresistibly and uninterruptedly held deep inside the world of Beethoven's imagination, which was immensely enlarged-so to speak-from within. ~ THE SAN DIEGO READER

*** They played as a tight group, carefully responding to each other, balancing lines, mirroring attacks. At times, they were as ferociously impressive as a small group of precision fighter pilots going through aerial maneuvers at breakneck speeds. ~ LOS ANGELES TIMES

*** Their version of Opus 59, No. 1 in E minor attained a rare sense of mystery and expectation in the elliptical moderations and silent bars of the first movement, summoned warmth and severity for the slow movement and a compelling gusto for the finale. Every change of tempo was geared perfectly to the dramatic implications of the music. The Alexander Quartet is destined for greatness. ~ THE GUARDIAN (London)

*** Stunning Ensemble On the evidence of their Beethoven Op. 59, No. 2, this is a group whose synthesis of strongly characterized individual voices is resilient enough to take inspiring risks, and sophisticated enough to see them through with imaginative sensitivity. ~ THE TIMES (London)

*** Beethoven's Quartet in C major (Op. 59, No. 3) asked the riskiest comparisons with senior quartets, yet this performance needed no explanation. ~ THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

*** I continue to be impressed by the Beethoven cycle by the Alexander String Quartet, founded in New York in 1981. [The Quartet No. 13 and Grosse Fugue] are played with impressive power and lyricism. ~ THE DENVER POST

*** In Opus 135, the Alexander demonstrated a remarkable ability to sustain a long, slow line. ... 'Must it be?' was played with the necessary sense of inevitability that Beethoven's ringing, affirmative answer, both to the question, and to the contradictions of the human condition, 'It must be!' demands. ~ THE BUFFALO NEWS

*** These musicians have a sophisticated grasp of quartet-playing. They perform with an in-built awareness of each colleague's line, in terms of both phrasing and coloring. Tones are blended, there is a delicate facility to the bowing and a unanimous ebb and flow to the delivery. They also have a sensitive ear for balance, gradating their sound-levels tactfully. Such general urbanity was much in evidence for Beethoven's overblown A major Quartet from his Opus 18. Most memorable for compositional quality was the Andante's charming Viennese mix of inwardness and self-confidence, but the Alexander's committed integrity of approach was a joy. ~ THE BIRMINGHAM POST (U.K.)



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