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Quartets by Beethoven's Friend...

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 11/04/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Cherubini's Quartets...



Cherubini was of course a Frenchified Italian whom Beethoven personally knew from July 1805.

(Beethoven respected his contemporary's work in the field of the French opera, upon which he modelled his own Fidelio.)



In the first quarter of the 19th Century, famed violinist Pierre Baillot established in Paris public string quartet concerts which eventually performed Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, Boccherini, Cherubini, Onslow, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn.



All but one of Cherubini's six Quartets were written after Beethoven's death--the last written in 1837.

They are proto-Romantic in ethos and late-Classical in form.

Withal, they are most enjoyable for enthusiasts of the genre.



The Melos Quartett was one of the finest ensembles of its kind in the 1970s.

This inexpensive 2009 Brilliant reissue is of the Melos' complete recordings done for Deutsche Grammophon in Stuttgart, 1973-74.



Cherubini: The String Quartets [Die Streichquartette] (original issue)

Cherubini: The String Quartets



The Melos' superb Beethoven Quartet cycle:

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Early String Quartets - Melos Quartett

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Middle Quartets - Melos Quartett

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late Quartets - Melos Quartett



Melos' Brahms:

Robert Schumann / Johannes Brahms: The String Quartets - Melos Quartett



Melos' Schubert:

Schubert: The String Quartets

Franz Schubert: The String Quartets - Melos Quartett

Schubert: String Quintet In C Major, D. 956

String Quintet"