Beethoven's Late String Quartets

[Nemonymous]

Why do we worry about there being no Heaven let alone any existence at all after death, when we have Heaven already here with us in our lives on Earth?

[sundog]

Please post some good recordings of those quartets here.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by sundog

Please post some good recordings of those quartets here.

I don't know anything about 'good recordings'. I have one set of CDs of the complete Beethoven String Quartets - Medici String Quartet - Nimbus Records. And these seem fine to me.

So that you can do some 'digging', these are Beethoven's 'Late' String Quartets, that I consider to be 'Heaven on Earth':

String Quartet...
in E Flat Major, Opus 127
in B Flat Major, Opus 130
in C Sharp Minor, Opus 131
in A Minor, Opus 132
in F Major, Opus 135

Opus 133 is the Grosse Fuge that was the original ending of Opus 130

I hope this is useful.
des

[paeng]

I only have the one from Amadeus Qt on DG. I read that the one from Lindsay Qt on ASV is good. Here are some more comments I found online:

http://members.macconnect.com/users/..._quartets.html

http://www.classicalcdguide.com/comp...eethoven.htm#2

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-112409645.html

[Nemonymous]

re: OPUS 131: From internet:
"A spooked-up rendition of the first movement's opening bars appears repeatedly in the soundtrack to the horror movie SCANNERS"

Here is the opening 9 minutes of Opus 131 (with links to the rest of the whole SQ):
http://vietsolutions.org/beethoven-o...tet-14-15.html

[Nemonymous]

and you can listen to his GROSSE FUGE (op 133) here:

Beethoven GREAT FUGUE op. 133 Leipzig String Quartet - YouTube

[gveranon]

I somehow missed hearing these quartets until just a few years ago. It's as if they're by a different composer, a different Beethoven than the one I previously knew. I have CDs by the the Quartetto Italiano, and I don't know how they compare to other recordings, but they sound great to my ears.

[Nemonymous]

I feel these Quartets are ideal for Ligottians in so many inscrutable ways. The optimum synergy of Distraction and Sublimation seeded with late-life despair as well as fulfilment.

[Nemonymous]

Simply needed to bump this thread.