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The Artemis deliver a feisty account of the C minor Op. 18, playing the outer movements with tremendous energy, brilliance, and also drama with highly accented sforzandos and brusque changes... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2008
Catalogue No: 3802682
Label: Erato
Series: Beethoven/Artemis Quartet
Length: 59 minutes

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4

Work length23:30

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$5.20

Artemis Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 2008-05-07
Recording Venue: 13-15 Feb & 5-7 May, 2008. Teldex Studio, Berlin

I Allegro ma non tanto

Track length8:21

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$1.30

II Andante scherzo quasi allegretto

Track length7:05

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$1.30

III Minuetto (allegretto)

Track length3:50

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IV Allegro

Track length4:14

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 'Rasumovsky No. 2'

Work length35:50

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Artemis Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 2008-05-07
Recording Venue: 13-15 Feb & 5-7 May, 2008. Teldex Studio, Berlin

I. Allegro

Track length12:41

Album only

II. Molto adagio

Track length11:58

Album only

III. Allegretto

Track length6:08

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$1.30

IV. Finale (Presto)

Track length5:03

$1.00

$1.30

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With their debut release on Virgin Classics in 2005 of Beethoven’s Quartets Opp.59/1 & 95, the Artemis Quartet launched, with promising success, a full Beethoven Quartet cycle for the label. The recording was greeted with great enthusiasm worldwide (in France, CHOC of the Year, Monde de la Musique - Diapason d’Or).

This release of Beethoven’s ‘Razumovsky’ & Quartet 18/4 is the Artemis’ much awaited second step in the projected complete Beethoven cycle - this time in its new grouping with new members Gregor Sigl and Friedemann Weigle, which we discover for the first time in an all-quartet programme, further to their recent release of Schubert’s String Quintet with Truls Mørk.

‘The Artemis String Quartet makes chamber music spectacular: the quartet's playing is polished and precise but at the same time spontaneous, fresh and explosive as though the music is being improvised on the spot. Even the physical motions involved with the bowing are beautifully choreographed to reflect the mood of the music.’ The Enquirer

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January 2009

The Artemis deliver a feisty account of the C minor Op. 18, playing the outer movements with tremendous energy, brilliance, and also drama with highly accented sforzandos and brusque changes of mood.

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