Beethoven: The Compete Quartets

Someone has uploaded to YouTube--in one nine-hour file (never seen anything this long there)--all 16 of LVB's string quartets, which some consider the Everest of music (though for that you really have to get to quartet 6 and onward, or from 2:15 on).  And it's by the fabled Quartetto Italiano in a legendary cycle.  And good sound quality, for such a file.  Go to YouTube for times for each quartet starting. If you're a newcomer, just go to 8:50 for the second movement of the first quartet (ten minutes long) and see if you get hooked.  Note:  Our new film and book explore one of Beethoven's other peaks, The Ninth Symphony, and it's influence around globe.  See trailer and Bill Moyers segment.

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Published on December 03, 2013 14:39
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