Cuarteto Casals Revelations - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets CD

Cuarteto Casals presents Revelations, the second volume in a new complete cycle of the Beethoven quartets. The group devised an innovative structural arrangement for it's recordings. The works are not presented in the typical grouping of early, middle and late periods: rather they are arranged according to each quartet's place within Beethoven's musical development. This ingenious juxtaposition reveals as never before how Beethoven's superhuman struggle for perfection gave birth to a musical language of breathtaking originality without precedent in this genre, of which Beethoven is the uncontested master.

1. String Quartet No.2 Op. 18 No.2. G Major 2. I. Allegro 3. II. Adagio Cantabile - Allegro 4. III. Scherzo. Allegro 5. IV. Allegro Molto, Quasi Presto 6. String Quartet No.10 Op. 74. E-Flat Major 7. I. Poco Adagio - Allegro 8. II. Adagio Ma Non Troppo 9. III. Presto - Piu Presto Quasi Prestissimo 10. IV. Allegretto Con Variazioni 11. String Quartet No.8 Op. 59 No.2. E minor 12. I. Allegro 13. II. Molto Adagio. Si Tratta Questo Pezzo Con Molto de Sentimiento 14. III. Allegretto - Maggiore, Th?me Russe 15. IV. Finale. Presto 16. String Quartet No.9 Op. 59 No.3. C Major 17. I. Introduzione. Andante Con Moto - Allegro Vivace 18. II. Andante Con Moto Quasi Allegretto 19. III. Menuetto. Grazioso - Trio 20. IV Allegro Molto 21. String Quartet No.15 Op. 132. a Minor 22. I. Assai Sostenuto - Allegro 23. II. Allegro Ma Non Tanto 24. III. Molto Adagio. Heiligier Dankgesang Eines Genesenen An Die Gottheit, in Der Lydischen Tonart 25. IV. Alla Marcia, Assai Vivace 26. V. Allegro Appassionato - Presto