The History of the String Quartet (an audio podcast)

Is it the ultimate test for a composer? Discover its origins and how this genre evolved over centuries with James Jacobs and John Banther.
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[@omarleone99]

Thanks for this

[@rongreen8962]

The 5 Beethoven late quartets - the Eb, Am, F, C#m, Bb - are arguably the high point of written music. I’ve been listening to these for years, and have never gotten to the bottom of them. I think it was his deafness: he was connected directly to the Source.

[@VaSavoir2007]

I thought the same thing until I heard Bartók’s string quartets, which to my intuition equal them, though I am not a musicokogist. Shostakovich’’s produced the same reaction in turn, but you must know them if you’ve listened to this.

[@VaSavoir2007]

Ausgezeichnet!