Beethoven: String Quartets Op 18 / Budapest String Quartet

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Intelligent performances from one of the most celebrated and long-lived of all string quartets. Some things work more successfully than others, and fast movements generally fare better than slow ones (the dashing finale of No. 5 is especially well done). It’s a shame that a few more repeats aren’t observed, but the playing is so well-blended and civilised that I’ll forgive them. The 1951/52 sound is clean rather than especially vivid.

-- Stephen Maddock, BBC Music Magazine


Product Description:

  • Release Date: May 30, 2008


  • Catalog Number: SONY52531


  • UPC: 074645253121


  • Label: CBS Masterworks


  • Number of Discs: 2


  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet


  • Performer: Boris Kroyt, Jac Gorodetsky, Joseph Roisman, Mischa Schneider



Works:

  1. Quartet for Strings no 1 in F major, Op. 18 no 1

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet

    Performer: Jac Gorodetsky (Violin), Boris Kroyt (Viola), Joseph Roisman (Violin), Mischa Schneider (Cello)


  2. Quartet for Strings no 2 in G major, Op. 18 no 2

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet

    Performer: Jac Gorodetsky (Violin), Boris Kroyt (Viola), Joseph Roisman (Violin), Mischa Schneider (Cello)


  3. Quartet for Strings no 3 in D major, Op. 18 no 3

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet

    Performer: Jac Gorodetsky (Violin), Boris Kroyt (Viola), Joseph Roisman (Violin), Mischa Schneider (Cello)


  4. Quartet for Strings no 4 in C minor, Op. 18 no 4

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet

    Performer: Jac Gorodetsky (Violin), Boris Kroyt (Viola), Joseph Roisman (Violin), Mischa Schneider (Cello)


  5. Quartet for Strings no 5 in A major, Op. 18 no 5

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet

    Performer: Jac Gorodetsky (Violin), Boris Kroyt (Viola), Joseph Roisman (Violin), Mischa Schneider (Cello)


  6. Quartet for Strings no 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 no 6

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet

    Performer: Jac Gorodetsky (Violin), Boris Kroyt (Viola), Joseph Roisman (Violin), Mischa Schneider (Cello)