Beethoven & Schönberg Belcea Quartet
Music is not a competition. But if points were awarded, Ludwig van Beethoven's crushing 'String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131' could well end up very high. Certainly if it is performed by one of the top quartets of our time, the Belcea Quartet. Belcea combines the old master Beethoven tonight with the 'String Quartet No. 1' by a young Arnold Schönberg, who would become the standard-bearer of atonality a few years later.
Beethoven & Schönberg Belcea Quartet
2 masters of the string quartet
Schoenberg's quartet from 1905 consists of one movement of 45 minutes and is written in a late-romantic idiom that recalls the world of Richard Strauss. Schoenberg himself claimed that he had copied Mozart's composition for string quartet. Beethoven also chose an unconventional form for his Opus 131 , in no less than seven movements. It was Beethoven's own favourite among his famous late quartets. After a performance of it, Schubert is said to have said: 'What shall we write after this?'
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Beethoven & Schönberg Belcea Quartet
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