Narratio Quartet - Beethoven: Early String Quartets [3CD]

Klasyczna Muzyka Kameralna / Romantyzm
premiera polska: 2024-09-27
kontynent: Europa
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Editor's Info
The first volume of Beethoven's String Quartets survey by Narratio Quartet comprises the Six Quartets opus 18. The Quartet play on period instruments and also assume a radical position towards performance practice including the revival of long-time neglected attitudes: a more flexible concept of tempo, a restrained and cautious use of vibrato, the portamento as the main expressive tool. Two more boxes will follow: Middle String Quartets in late 2024 and Late String Quartets on Spring 2025.

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.

Sonograma, 29-7-2024
"The Narratio Quartet offer eminently civilized, thoughtful and aristocratic readings of this opus 18. Indeed, this is a well-proportioned, balanced and articulate reading, showing an understanding and depth of feeling that is rare. The integration and intonation are impeccable; without a doubt, the vigor of its touch and the energy it generates are qualities that cannot fail to surprise the listener. The four instrumentalists, with the technique used with commendable moderation and always with sensitivity, achieve an extraordinary effect."

BBC Music Magazine
there is much to enjoy in the quartet’s poised and stylish playing, which acquires real passion at the amazing climax of the second movement of No. 1 in F...Overall, the pioneering spirit is admirable but undeniably creates uneven results.

Gramophone Magazine
These are, in their own modest way, quite daring interpretations of Beethoven’s six ‘early’ quartets...The Narratio are most satisfying in the first and second quartets, and No 2 is especially lovely for its lightness of touch and rhythmic point.

muzycy:
Narratio Quartet:
Johannes Leertouwer (violin)
Viola de Hoog (cello)
Franc Polman (violin)
Dorothea Vogel (viola)

utwory:
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18 No. 1
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18 No. 2
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18 No. 3
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18 No. 5
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6

wydano: 03 May 2024
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