The Schuppanzigh Quartet has been a source of enormous energy in the area of string quartet literature for almost thirty years. Founded by violinist Anton Steck in 1996, the ensemble offers a delightful experience with their intellectually stimulating concert programs and recordings, whose connections to other arts are completely fascinating. So too is their current album with it's snapshots of early 19th century Vienna. Beethoven's unruly and ironic "Quartetto serioso" Op. 95 is paired with a quartet by the French violinist Pierre Rode, for whom the master had written his last violin sonata Op. 96 in 1812. Consequently, this work is also recorded here - not in the original, but in an astonishing quartet version that Beethoven's pupil and friend Ferdinand Ries arranged. And so it sounds almost a bit like Dvorak

Tracklist:

String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95~Allegro con brio
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95~Allegretto ma non troppo
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95~Allegro assai vivace ma serioso
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95~Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G major Op. 96~Allegro moderato
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G major Op. 96~Adagio espressivo
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G major Op. 96~Scherzo. Allegro
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G major Op. 96~Poco Allegretto - Adagio espressivo - Tempo I - Allegro - Poco Adagio - Pre
String Quartet in G major Op. 18~Introduction - Allegro moderato
String Quartet in G major Op. 18~Siciliano
String Quartet in G major Op. 18~Allegretto

UPC: 761203548927
Label: Cpo Records
Release Date: 4.4.25
Format: CD

Beethoven / Ries / Rode - String Quartets (CD)