It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

Performing the composer’s challenging late quartets the quartet gave glimpses of the sublime but were plagued by tuning difficulties Beethoven’s late string quartets are undoubtedly one of the ...

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