Some of Beethoven’s most enduring and unabashedly successful works stem from his so-called “Middle Period”. In the genre of chamber music, the quartets opp. 74 and 95 complete this period together with the op. 59 quartets.<br>
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This edition of the string quartets opp. 74 and 95 also includes the Allegretto in B minor WoO 210. Written by Beethoven in 1817, this miniature for string quartet was only rediscovered in the late 1990s.<br>
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Jonathan Del Mar’s scholarly critical edition sets the record straight once and for all, restoring Beethoven’s articulation, dynamics and lengths of slurs as the composer originally intended. The interdependency of the sources and their readings are clearly laid out in the Critical Commentary. It also contains facsimile pages which serve to clarify ambiguities of previous editions.<br>