Beethoven: the String Quartets

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Beethoven: the String Quartets
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Artist: Emerson String Quartet
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2010-10-19
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Allegro
  2. Andante con moto
  3. Allegro
  4. Presto
  5. Allegro con brio
  6. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
  7. Scherzo (Allegro molto)
  8. Allegro
  9. Allegro
  10. Adagio cantabile - Allegro - Tempo I
  11. Scherzo (Allegro)
  12. Allegro molto, quasi presto
Music CD 2
  1. Allegro ma non tanto
  2. Andante scherzoso, quasi allegretto
  3. Menuetto (Allegretto)
  4. Allegro
  5. Allegro
  6. Menuetto
  7. Andante cantabile
  8. Allegro
  9. Allegro con brio
  10. Adagio ma non troppo
  11. Scherzo (Allegro)
  12. La Malinconia (Adagio - Allegretto quasi allegro - Adagio - Allegretto - Poco adagio - Prestissimo)
Music CD 3
  1. Allegro
  2. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando
  3. Adagio molto e mesto
  4. Thème russe (Allegro)
  5. Allegro
  6. Molto adagio
  7. Allegretto
  8. Finale (Presto)
Music CD 4
  1. Introduzione (Andante con moto) - Allegro vivace
  2. Andante con moto quasi allegretto
  3. Menuetto (Grazioso)
  4. Allegro molto
  5. Poco adagio - Allegro
  6. Adagio ma non troppo
  7. Presto - Più presto quasi prestissimo
  8. Allegretto con variazioni
  9. Allegro con brio
  10. Allegretto ma non troppo
  11. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso
  12. Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato
Music CD 5
  1. Maestoso - Allegro
  2. Adagio ma non troppo e molto cantabile
  3. Scherzando vivace
  4. Finale
  5. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
  6. Allegro molto vivace
  7. Allegro moderato
  8. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile - Più mosso - Andante moderato e lusinghiero - Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio, ma non troppo e semplice - Allegretto
  9. Presto
  10. Adagio quasi un poco andante
  11. Allegro
Music CD 6
  1. Assai sostenuto - Allegro
  2. Allegro ma non tanto
  3. Canzona di ringraziamento offerta alla divinità da un guarito, in modo lidico (Molto adagio) - Sentendo nuova forza (Andante)
  4. Alla marcia, assai vivace - Più allegro - Presto
  5. Allegro appassionato
  6. Allegretto
  7. Vivace
  8. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo
  9. Der schwer gefaÃ?te EntschluÃ? (Grave - Allegro - Grave ma non troppo tratto - Allegro)
Music CD 7
  1. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro
  2. Presto
  3. Andante con moto ma non troppo. Poco scherzando
  4. Alla danza tedesca (Allegro assai)
  5. Cavatina ( Adagio molto espressivo)Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op.133
  6. Finale (Allegro)

Music reviews of Beethoven: the String Quartets

Music Review: Everbody Into The Pool
Rating: 5 Stars

Howdy folks. Lest you fret, I am under no illusion that I am the first to review these recordings. These are a bargain re-release of the the DG recordings listed below for $50-$60 more. (Which is what I paid and still feel like I got a bargain.) If you like play-ground arguments, there are currently 25 reviews accompanying the listing below. It's as passionate a bunch of opinions as you are likely to find. If we could get all the reviewers together with some liquor, we'd have the makings of a terrific bar fight. The interesting thing to me is that no other set of these quartets generates this amount of passion. And I can't help but think that that alone would tickle Ludwig to death.

To me, one of the most peculiar notions abroad in the land is that there is a "right" way to perform a piece of music and whatever differs is "wrong". And how coincidental it is that the "right" way just happens to be the preference of the reviewer. I'm waiting for someone to say,"I've spent my life as a musician studying this magnificent piece and this performance is precisely the one the composer intended and I don't care for it at all. Don't like it no way, no how." I'm coming up 68 so I'm not holding my breath. (I confess that the notion that an artist as creative as a Bach or Beethoven would play any piece of music the same way over and over to be fatuous in the extreme. I've made a living as an actor for over 45 years and never been able to repeat a performance or line reading exactly even when I wanted to.) There's a line in a Peter Shaffer play in which a straight-laced accountant is described as being "walled up in 'should' like a tomb". So my point becomes, once you've decided your preference is "right", then you can't even hear the "wrong" ones. You're too busy being upset by the violation of your "should". For instance, try changing a sentence in a child's favorite bedtime story. Just try it.

So what was I talking about before I became distracted by my own wisdom? Oh yeah, the Emerson's Beethoven. No question they can rattle your cage. Their prestos cannot be mistaken for anything else. They are the musical equivalent of a Chilean bus ride in the Andes on a dirt road without a guard-rail and a NASCAR wannabe at the wheel. We're talking genuine excitement and willtheygoovertheedge suspense. On the other hand, some of their adagios are heartrending in their simplicity and lack of melodrama. They just play the music without trying to tell you how you should feel about it. They let Beethoven speak for himself. Try the Op. 135 (a little miracle which Beethoven only heard in his head) for example. It is my sincerest hope that somewhere, somehow, Beethoven has heard the Emerson's interp and sat back with a grin saying,"Wow! Who knew?" Remember, this is the guy who in the middle of the last movement of his last piano sonata (which he also never heard outside the bounds of his skull) invented Ragtime, so he wasn't above shaking things up when it comes to a musical experience. To now try to cast him as hidebound traditionalist just has to be the very definition of nonsense on stilts.

Now none of this should be interpreted to mean that the Emerson version is my ultimate favorite. I'm fickle. Depends on the day. Some days it's the Lindsays (first recordings), some days the Tokyo (first or second). Others the Alexander delights and, still others, the Takacs is cracker-jack. And let's not forget the Petersen Qt. No, no. A hundred years ago, you'd be lucky to have heard even a mediocre performance of any of LvB's quartets even once in your lifetime....even. Now, you can listen to splendid performances whenever. Makes you wonder what was so good about the good ol' days. Except that an irascible, middle-aged, deaf guy could still hear God whispering to him. He was not entombed in should. But, in the immortal words of the poet Simon, "A man hears what he wants to hear and he disregards the rest." Listening is one thing. Hearing is another thing altogether.

Anyhoo, you now can join the fun for about two bucks a quartet including shipping. Choices, choices.

Description of Beethoven: the String Quartets

Six months after the launch of the New Collectors Edition (original US release 3/30/2010) we have chalked up impressive sales around the globe. The series continues with ten new releases, many of which are appearing at budget price for the first time. These classic performances are truly the cream of the crop and the definitive recordings every collector should have.

The Mt. Everest of the string quartet canon is here conquered by the Emerson String Quartet in a set that includes Grammy®-award winning recordings.

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