Beethoven's "Late Quartets," No. 12-16 (plus the Große Fuge), were his final major compositions. They were so advanced at the time that they bewildered most and led some to believe the once great ...

Almost 15 years ago, the men of the Danish String Quartet — they were in their 20s at the time and still called themselves the “Young” Danish — said in an interview that they would need to become more ...

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Their previous spectacular pulled off the supreme challenge of twinning the “Grosse Fuge” as finale of Beethoven’s Op. 130 Quartet with the huge Chacony that crowns Britten’s Second. The Passacaglia ...