All this week on Classic Drive, Lorcan will feature music from 'The Early Quartets' by Calidore String Quartet.
The string quartet was perhaps the most prestigious (and certainly the most lucrative) genre for a composer at the turn of the 19th century. Beethoven left nothing to chance with his inaugural Op. 18 set, and they were a triumph, here performed by the award-winning Calidore String Quartet.
Tracklist
- String Quartet in F major Op 18 No 1 i. Allegro con brio
- ii. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
- iii. Scherzo: Allegro molto
- iv. Allegro
- String Quartet in G major Op 18 No 2 i. Allegro
- ii. Adagio cantabile – Allegro
- iii. Scherzo: Allegro
- iv. Allegro molto quasi presto
- String Quartet in D major Op 18 No 3 i. Allegro
- ii. Andante con moto
- iii. Allegro
- iv. Presto
- String Quartet in C minor Op 18 No 4 i. Allegro ma non tanto
- ii. Scherzo: Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto
- iii. Menuetto: Allegretto
- iv. Allegro
- String Quartet in A major Op 18 No 5 i. Allegro
- ii. Menuetto
- iii. Andante cantabile
- iv. Allegro
- String Quartet in B flat major Op 18 No 6 i. Allegro con brio
- ii. Adagio ma non troppo
- iii. Scherzo: Allegro
- iv. La Malinconia: Adagio – Allegretto quasi allegro