Is there any better, more transcendental, more affecting music than the late Beethoven quartets? Recording these – the endlessly touching Cavatina, the ravishing ‚Heilige Dankgesang‘, the brilliant madness of the Grosse Fuge and the towering, mindblowing 131 – over 9 days in May has been very special, and memorable..
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