Artist: Ehnes Quartet
Album: Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 10 & 11
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 50:19
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 923 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Ehnes Quartet – String Quartet No. 10 in E Flat Major, Op. 74 ‘Harp’: I. Poco Adagio – Allegro (09:18)
1-02. Ehnes Quartet – String Quartet No. 10 in E Flat Major, Op. 74 ‘Harp’: II. Adagio ma non troppo (09:22)
1-03. Ehnes Quartet – String Quartet No. 10 in E Flat Major, Op. 74 ‘Harp’: III. Presto (04:54)
1-04. Ehnes Quartet – String Quartet No. 10 in E Flat Major, Op. 74 ‘Harp’: IV. Allegretto con variazione (06:34)
1-05. Ehnes Quartet – String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’: I. Allegro con brio (04:10)
1-06. Ehnes Quartet – String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’: II. Allegretto ma non troppo (06:37)
1-07. Ehnes Quartet – String Quartet No. in F Minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’: III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso (04:19)
1-08. Ehnes Quartet – String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’: IV. Larghetto espressivo – Allegretto agitato – Allegro (05:01)

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This, the third in the series of Beethoven’s late quartets from the Ehnes Quartet deviates from the official ‘late’ works to include the last two of Beethoven’s ‘middle period’ quartets: The sunny and amiable E flat, known as the ‘Harp’, and the terse and irascible F Minor, known not surprisingly, as ‘Serioso’.

Beethoven had a habit of working on two works of wildly differing emotional ranges at the same time – never more clearly illustrated as in these two masterly quartets.