Beethoven: Streichquartette Opp. 127 & 132 (2005)

These are hardly the Hagen Quartett's first recordings of Beethoven's quartets. The group made its first Beethoven recordings back in 1997 with the Fugue for String Quartet, Op. 137, and the original version of Opus 18/6 for DG's Complete Beethoven Edition. But those early recordings, while breathtakingly good, cannot compare with later recordings of Beethoven's canonical quartets, climaxing with this coupling of Opus 127 and Opus 132, except in the sense that the same excellent ensemble made all of them. The quick ... Read More

These are hardly the Hagen Quartett's first recordings of Beethoven's quartets. The group made its first Beethoven recordings back in 1997 with the Fugue for String Quartet, Op. 137, and the original version of Opus 18/6 for DG's Complete Beethoven Edition. But those early recordings, while breathtakingly good, cannot compare with later recordings of Beethoven's canonical quartets, climaxing with this coupling of Opus 127 and Opus 132, except in the sense that the same excellent ensemble made all of them. The quick intelligence, pointed ensemble, lean sonority, and powerful expressivity that have characterized all of the Hagen Quartett's recordings is all once again plentifully in evidence here, but there is something more in these performances, something clearer and stronger and more luminous. The Hagen has always responded forcefully to challenges -- recall its earlier Janácek and Webern recordings -- and here the challenges are immensely high. To falter in the empyrean realms of Beethoven's late... Read Less

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