In the second installment of its recorded cycle of the late Beethoven string quartets, Cypress String Quartet elected to attack the quartet that is both the longest -- in its original version -- and contains his latest music of any kind, Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 130. Of the two attributes previously mentioned, they cannot be had simultaneously in a single realization of the work, as the Opus 130 becomes Beethoven's longest quartet by virtue of inclusion of its original last movement -- the Grosse Fuge ...
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In the second installment of its recorded cycle of the late Beethoven string quartets, Cypress String Quartet elected to attack the quartet that is both the longest -- in its original version -- and contains his latest music of any kind, Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 130. Of the two attributes previously mentioned, they cannot be had simultaneously in a single realization of the work, as the Opus 130 becomes Beethoven's longest quartet by virtue of inclusion of its original last movement -- the Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 -- and latest only through the use of the replacement Finale: Allegro submitted in its stead. Cypress String Quartet addresses the choice by including both movements with the newer one placed at the end as a bonus track. Clearly the group prefers the Grosse Fuge as the closer to this work and does what it can to make it adhere to the overall formal plan. At just over 15 minutes, the Grosse Fuge is performed about a minute faster than is the average and the ensemble dynamics...
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