Beethoven in the Garden of Gethsemane
Saturday, March 27, 2021String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95
Friday, March 26, 2021
Although composed in 1810 and formally classified as the last of the “middle quartets”, the Opus 95 “Quartetto Serioso” (as Beethoven called it) has much in common with the “late quartets” composed more than a decade later.
String Quartet No. 10 in Eb Major, Op. 74
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Just a year after the Opus 59 "Razumovsky Quartets", Beethoven composed his first standalone quartet, Opus 74, nicknamed "The Harp" for its plucked arpeggios in the first movement.
String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59-3
String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59-2
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Beethoven’s “Razumovsky Quartets” took the string quartet out of the salon and onto the concert stage, no longer to be considered "light entertainment".
String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59-1
Monday, March 22, 2021
Six years after the publication of the six Opus 18 string quartets, Beethoven received a commission for three quartets from Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna, who was the funder of the Schuppanzigh Quartet and himself an accomplished violinist.
String Quartet No. 6 in Bb Major, Opus 18 no. 6
String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18 no. 5
String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Opus 18, no. 4
Friday, March 19, 2021
The fourth of Beethoven's Opus 18 quartets is actually the last of the sixth to be composed, and is in C-minor, the key associated with some of his most urgent and dramatic works.