Beethoven, Fine Arts Quartet – Fugues And Rarities For String Quartet

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Label:	Naxos – 8.574051
Format:	CD, Album
Country:	Germany
Released:	Jan 2020
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Baroque, Classical

Tracklist

	String Quartet in F Major, Hess 32 (1st Version Of String Quartet No. 1, Op. 18, No. 1) (1799)	(30:30)
1	I. Allegro Con Brio	10:19
2	II. Adagio Molto	9:32
3	III. Scherzo: Allegro	3:46
4	IV. Allegretto	6:46
5	String Quartet No. 14 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 131: Adagio Expressivo (Early Version) (1826)	6:04
6	Prelude And Fugue In F Major, Hess 30 (1795)	6:28
7	Allegretto In B Minor, WoO 210 (1817)	0:34
8	Prelude And Fugue In C Major, Hess 31 (1795)	4:44
9	Fugue In D Minor, Hess 245 (Fragment) (c. 1795)	0:40
10	Solomon, HWV 67, Part I — Overture: Fugue (Arr. Beethoven For String Quartet, Hess 36) (1794-95) Composed By – George Frideric Handel*	2:11
11	Menuett In A Flat Major, WoO 209, Hess 33 (c. 1790)	2:05
12	Grosse Fuge In B Flat Major, Op. 133 (1825)	16:42

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Naxos Rights Europe Ltd
Copyright © – Naxos Rights Europe Ltd
Published By – Breitkopf & Härtel
Published By – G. Henle Verlag
Published By – Nagels Verlag, Kassel
Recorded At – Studio Christuskirche, Berlin
Produced At – Pegasus Musikproduktion
Engineered At – Pegasus Musikproduktion
Edited At – Pegasus Musikproduktion
Glass Mastered At – Arvato – 57383728

Credits

Arranged By – Ludwig van Beethoven (tracks: 10)
Composed By – Ludwig van Beethoven (tracks: 1-9, 11-12)
Ensemble – Fine Arts Quartet*
Liner Notes – Keith Anderson (6)
Producer, Engineer, Editor – Florian B. Schmidt

Notes

℗ 2019 & © 2020 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd. Made in Germany. 4pp booklet in English.

Recorded 26-29 November, 2018 at Christuskirche, Berlin-Oberschöneweide, Germany.

Publishers by track:
1-4, 9-12 — Breitkopf & Härter
5 — G. Henle Verlag
6,8 — Nagels Verlag
7 — K. G. Saur

Personnel in Fine Arts Quartet for this release:
Ralph Evans, Violin I; Efim Boico, Violin II; Gil Sharon, Viola; Niklas Schmidt, Cello

Cover photo by Matt Reid (iStockphoto.com).