BEETHOVEN // String Quartet No.13 in B-Flat Major, Op.130: II. Presto by Edding Quartet

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Album release: September 2016

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
String Quartet, Op. 130 (Grosse Fuge, Op. 133), Quintet for Piano and Winds, Op. 16
Edding Quartet, Northernlight, Maude Gratton

The pairing of the two works on this album is unique in that one comes from the dawn, the other from the dusk of Ludwig van Beethoven’s career. Indeed, whereas the composer wrote the Quintet for winds and piano, Op. 16 when he was only 26 – the talented young man also excelled as a successful pianist –, he did not finish his String Quartet Op. 130 until a year before his death. The Edding quartet proposes here the original version of the work, with the Grosse Fuge, op.130, as final.

The direct comparison of these two works on the same disc intelligently sheds light on the fantastic distance the composer covered between these two points in time.

Two years after the success of their Schubert album, very warmly received by the press and public alike, the Edding Quartet and Northernlight felicitously join together once again on the same album to give new readings of these masterpieces of thevchamber music repertoire. Having become major interpreters of the Classical and Romantic repertoires, the two ensembles offer expert performances, refined and precise, of two of the German composer’s finest scores.

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