Simplest-shop.comonline shopping, the simple way |
Welcome | Help  |
| Search for |
|
Home > Classical Music > Featured Performers, A-Z > ( T ) > Beethoven Late String Quartets
This website will be shutdown on 2008-04-01.
|
 Add to shopping cart |
Beethoven: The Late String Quartets | |||||||||
 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Decca Catalog: Music Release date: 2005-01-11 Media: Audio CD discs number: 3 Ean: 0028947084921 Upc: 028947084921  Tip: compare prices with similar classical music CDsArtists:
|
| |||||||
| Top stores | Description | Price | Link to shop |
| amazon.com |
Availability: in 24 hours Current discount:9% off |
$45.99 | |
| used | 6 used offers, as low as... | $35.76 | see more used offers |
| all new | 35 thirdParty new offers, as low as... | $30.98 | see more ThirdParty new offers |
| Professional Review: |
| Some Quartets, like the Busch, Italiano, and Talich, have come close to the inner core of these supreme masterpieces. The Takács Quartet now joins those select few. From the opening chords of the Op. 127--firmly stated, perfectly blended, just gruff enough while still sounding beautiful--you know you're in safe hands during this journey into the deepest, most timeless works in the repertory. Slow movements are always a major test here, and if the Takács doesn't surpass some of the above-mentioned groups, they are superior to their present-day peers in conveying Beethoven's deepest thinking while also attending to surface beauties. The Takács surpass the Emersons and Alban Berg Quartet(admirable as those performances are)in their interpretive insights and ensemble sound. But these masterpieces are so rich and dense that admirers need more than one version. The Takács are masters of Beethoven's quick-changing contrasts, making them sound logical, even inevitable. While their playing is full of drive and forward motion, it’s never excessively energetic or overly lean. Of course, the Grosse Fugue is included, along with Beethoven's substitute finale Opus 130 and the Opus 95 Quartet, making for three well-filled discs recorded in excellent sound. --Dan Davis |
| User Reviews: |
 Written on February 4, 2005 Summary: SUBLIME!!! First, my short review....in a word: EUREKA!! For those who have not ever purchased a complete set of the Beethoven Quartets, I hesitate to tell those auditors to purchase this Sine Qua Non set by the Takacs Quartet, for they may feel no need to purchase any other set, so marvelous and fine a set these are, but if one should own only one set of Beethoven Quartets, then one can hardly regret one's chose if this be it....this particular set of the Late Quartets completes the Takacs cycle and my copy arrived last night...I began with Der Grosse Fuge and shivered in ecstasy for the length of the performance....I let the cd continue into the Replacement movement for Der Grosse Fuge in Opus 130, then staggering under the weight of my central nervous system's attempt to digest the experience of these segments of the precious Beethovenian Sound/Time Continuum, I pulled out and played the first & last movements of the Quartet #14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131, which is my favorite Beethoven Quartet, which soared to the empyreal realm that some quartets can only dream of...EUREKA!!!... ...so the Takacs cycle reduces the Emersons to mere toast....the Takacs can only be equalled but never surpassed in pace, rhythm, phrasing, timbre, accents, dynamics, ensemble and subtlety of expression... ...I humbly place the aesthetic achievement of the Takacs Beethoven cycle along side that of the past achievements of the Vegh Quartet, the Italian Quartet, the Lindsay Quartet, the Budapest Quartet, the Hungarian Quartet and the Busch Quartet... and the recorded sound by Decca exceeded my expectations... ...Warning!...if one is personally attached to the achievements of the Guarneri Quartet, the Juilliard Quartet, or the Emerson Quartet, then do not purchase the Takacs Cycle for either your past reveries will be shattered and rendered to dust by, in my opinion, of course, the superior performances of the Takacs or the subtle, sublime music making of the Takacs will simply float past your ears as if one were as tone deaf as General Ulysses S. Grant, who once said: "I only know two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't."... Alberich Written on February 2, 2005 Summary: what others say "The third and final volume in this definitive modern cycle which has already received enormous international acclaim as well as a Grammy Award and two Gramophone Awards." "Takács Quartet: Edward Dusinberre - violin, Károly Schranz - violin, Roger Tapping - viola, András Fejér - cello" "It is impossible to exaggerate the beauty of the tone-colours that these four musicians achieve... If late Beethoven is the Holy Grail of quartet playing, then the Takács Quartet has found it" - The Guardian concert review "The playing is of the highest standard: exuberant, yet also alive to the softest, tenderest gradations of tone;" - International Record Review (obviously not my reviews - I am not enough of an expert or even acquainted enough with classical to do a good review. I bought it and I am impressed, though. |
| Comparison map |
| Wondering how the classical music "Beethoven: The Late String Quartets" relates to similar classical music CDs? Find out at a glance here: |
| Price comparison |
 Beethoven: The Late String Quartets |
 Beethoven: String Quartets |
 Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 18 |
 Béla Bartók: The 6... |
 Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 13 & 14 |
 Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7 |
| Our price | $45.99 | $30.49 | $33.98 | $33.98 | $23.98 | $10.99 |
| List price | $50.98 | $33.98 | $33.98 | $33.98 | $23.98 | $11.98 |
| Lowest used price | $35.76 | $19.97 | $26.16 | $22.43 | $12.39 | $6.99 |
| Lowest new price | $30.98 | $17.97 | $20.55 | $22.42 | $14.87 | $6.98 |
| Collectible price | - | - | - | $49.95 | - | $11.98 |
| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 2005-01-11 | 2002-05-14 | 2004-01-13 | 1998-01-13 | 2006-11-14 | 1996-01-23 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Format | - | - | - | - | Import | - |
| Ean | 0028947084921 | 0028947084723 | 0028947084822 | 0028945529721 | 0034571175850 | 0028944740028 |
| Upc | 028947084921 | 028947084723 | 028947084822 | 028945529721 | 034571175850 | 028944740028 |
| Link to shop* (opens in a new window) | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* |
| take one out? |
|
I am here: Home > Classical Music > Featured Performers, A-Z > ( T ) > Beethoven Late String Quartets
This website will be shutdown on 2008-04-01.
|
 E-mail this page |
|
About the Simplest Shop | Help | Term of Use | Privacy Policy
Home | Contact us | Bookmark us | get paid for writing |
|
Copyright Simplest-Shop.com 2004. All rights reserved |