Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven Around the World: Vienna, Op. 59 Nos 1 & 2 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven Around the World: Vienna, Op. 59 Nos 1 & 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:59 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Classical
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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birthday with the entire world in 2020, the Carnegie Hall chose the French ensemble the Ébène Quartet to perform Beethoven’s Quatuors in their entirety. Honoured by this prestigious invitation, the four musicians decided to prolong this exceptional moment by playing this globally recognised music around the world, on all five continents in seven concerts between April 2019 and January 2020.

The intellectual and emotional strength of Beethoven’s opus remains a force to be reckoned with, a humanist vector carried by the spirit of the Enlightenment. Over the course of this fantastic journey, the Ébène Quartet will record the quatuors in concerts given in Vienna, Philadelphia, Tokyo, São Paulo, Melbourne, Nairobi and Paris, their home ground. A film crew will follow the musicians on their world tour and will thereafter produce a documentary.

The first milestone of this Beethoven around the World journey makes up this album, and was recorded in June 2019 in the Mozartsaal of the Vienna Konzerthaus. It contains the first two Razumovsky Quatuors, performed in the very city where they were composed in 1806. – François Hudry

Tracklist:

1. Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, “Razumovsky”: I. Allegro (10:43)
2. Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, “Razumovsky”: II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando (09:01)
3. Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, “Razumovsky”: III. Adagio molto e mesto (14:12)
4. Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, “Razumovsky”: IV. Allegro (Russian Theme) (08:05)
5. Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, “Razumovsky”: I. Allegro (SHRM 96/24) (09:58)
6. Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, “Razumovsky”: II. Molto adagio (13:14)
7. Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, “Razumovsky”: III. Allegretto (06:59)
8. Quatuor Ébène – Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, “Razumovsky”: IV. Finale – Presto (05:42)

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