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Beethoven - String Quartet op.130, Grosse Fuge op.133 | Onyx ONYX4199

Beethoven - String Quartet op.130, Grosse Fuge op.133

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Label: Onyx

Cat No: ONYX4199

Barcode: 0880040419921

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 18th June 2021

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Like many musical projects planned for 2020, the plans of the Ehnes Quartet to record Beethoven’s late quartets underwent a drastic revision. Rather than cancel the project, some ingenious technology was employed. James Ehnes takes up the story.

‘Our quartet was greatly looking forward to a week of recording in the United Kingdom in August 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible for us to travel to the UK, and for our UK-based producer, Simon Kiln, to travel to us. We were, however, able to take advantage of the wonders of modern technology by recording in the USA with Simon monitoring the sessions in real time in London. A fortunate benefit of not traveling overseas for these recordings was that the days we had scheduled for travel become additional recording days, allowing us to record all of Beethoven’s string quartets from Op.74 onwards. The four CDs we recorded during this intense two-week period will always be treasured reminders for us of a brief, bucolic window of artistic fulfilment during a terribly challenging period for the world.’

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