Artist: Cuarteto Casals
Album: Beethoven: Revelations, 2
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:06:17
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,16 GB

Tracklist:

1-1. Cuarteto Casals – String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2: I. Allegro (13:11)
1-2. Cuarteto Casals – String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2: II. Molto adagio. Si tratta questo pezzo con molto di sentimento (11:44)
1-3. Cuarteto Casals – String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2: III. Allegretto – Maggiore, Thème russe (06:07)
1-4. Cuarteto Casals – String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2: IV. Finale. Presto (05:15)
1-5. Cuarteto Casals – String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3: I. Introduzione. Andante con moto – Allegro vivace (10:26)
1-6. Cuarteto Casals – String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3: II. Andante con moto quasi allegretto (08:25)
1-7. Cuarteto Casals – String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3: III. Minuetto. Grazioso – Trio (04:53)
1-8. Cuarteto Casals – String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3: IV. Allegro molto (06:13)

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Cuarteto Casals presents Revelations, the second volume in a new complete cycle of the Beethoven quartets. The group devised an innovative structural arrangement for its recordings. The works are not presented in the typical grouping of early, middle and late periods: rather they are arranged according to each quartet’s place within Beethoven’s musical development. This ingenious juxtaposition reveals as never before how Beethoven’s superhuman struggle for perfection gave birth to a musical language of breathtaking originality without precedent in this genre, of which Beethoven is the uncontested master.After ‘Inventions’, ‘Revelations’ is the second volume in a complete set of the Beethoven quartets that breaks new ground: it aims to regroup the works according to their position within the three broad creative divisions of the composer’s life – the formative years, the ‘heroic’ period and the late period. This programme assembles the ‘median quartets’, in other words the works that prolonged and consolidated the stylistic innovations outlined at the beginning of each of these creative periods. ‘It’ll be fascinating to hear the next instalment’ (Gramophone).