Artist: Narratio Quartet Title: Beethoven: Early String Quartets Year Of Release: 2024 Label: Challenge Classics Genre: Classical Quality: flac lossless (tracks) 24bits - 44.1kHz + Booklet Total Time: 02:45:30 Total Size: 1.58 gb Tracklist CD1 01. String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro 02. String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18: II. Andante con moto 03. String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18: III. Allegro 04. String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18: IV. Presto 05. String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro con brio 06. String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18: II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato 07. String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18: III. Scherzo Allegro molto - Trio 08. String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18: IV. Allegro CD2 01. String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro 02. String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18: II. Adagio cantabile - Allegro - Tempo I 03. String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18: III. Scherzo Allegro - Trio 04. String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18: IV. Allegro molto - quasi Presto 05. String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro 06. String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18: II. Menuetto - Trio 07. String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18: III. Andante cantabile (con variazioni) 08. String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18: IV. Allegro CD3 01. String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18: I. Allegro ma non tanto 02. String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Andante scherzoso quasi Allegretto 03. String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18: III. Menuetto Allegro - Trio 04. String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18: IV. Allegretto - Prestissimo 05. String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro con brio 06. String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: II. Adagio ma non troppo 07. String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: III. Scherzo Allegro - Trio 08. String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: IV. La Malinconia - Questo pezzo si deve trattare colla più gran delicatezza - Adagio - Allegretto quasi Allegro Viola de Hoog: I have often wondered which of the “great spirits” might provide a new impulse and a different direction for what we call classical music in this early part of the twenty-first century. Narratio Quartet have been immersed in all of Beethoven’s string quartets for over fifteen years now. We experience time and again how Beethoven explored and then overcame the limits of the Classical style and the instrumental difficulties that were prevalent at the start of the nineteenth century. What we hear has been enriched by the passing of two centuries and the gaining of wider experience. Progress indeed, might be your first thought, but perhaps we have also lost something along the way? The ability to feel how groundbreaking and visionary this music was in those days. My colleagues and I feel that using instruments that are comparable to those of the time has helped us enormously in getting somewhat closer to the surprise, the bewilderment and the rapture that the musicians in Schuppanzigh’s quartet must have felt when they first came face to face with the newest and most innovative chamber music of the day