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The Tokyo Quartet

Beethoven: The "Late" Quartets

By The Tokyo Quartet

Label: Harmonia Mundi
Released: 2010
Track listing: Opus 127; Opus 130; Opus 131; Opus 132; Opus 133; Opus 135.

The Tokyo Quartet: Beethoven: The "Late" Quartets

by AAJ Staff
November 23, 2010

Just as any real and informed music fan is familiar with the Duke Ellington “Blanton Webster Band," Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959), and Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens recordings, so should they also be immersed in Beethoven's famous late string quartets. There are pre-echoes of twentieth century popular music harmony here, but additionally, ...