“The resulting set, attractively decorated with splotches and splashes…, should bring exhilaration, solance and satisfaction to many musical ears.”
“Beethoven – Complete String Quartets” performed by Miró Quartet, has been reviewed on BBC Music Magazine – February 2020 edition! Read a glimpse of the review below!
“[…] while the Miró find due intensity in such movements as the darkly tragic ‘Adagio’ of Op.18, No.1, their deftness of articulation elewhere tends towards a compensating spontaneity. Several of the finales are taken very fast, but with such precision of bowing and intonation that they never lapse into a scramble. When the three Op.59 quartets appeared in 1807, dedicated to Count Rasumovsky, they were generally regarded as ‘very long and difficult’. Much of Op.59, No.1 in particular, lasting an unprecedented 40 minutes, proceeds in extended paragraphs underpinned by slowmoving harmonies, yet the Miró are convincing both in unfolding the serenely majestic progress of its first movement and in sustaining the febrile energy of its incessantly inventive dance-like second.”
Bayan Northcott
Read the full review on BBC Music Magazine
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