Kuijken Quartet: Beethoven – String Quartets op.59, String Quintet op.29 (DSD)

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Kuijken Quartet
Format: DSD64 (dsf tracks)
Label: Challenge Records
Release: 2011
Size: 5.41 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

Disc 1
String Quartet in F major op. 59 no. 1 (1806)
01. Allegro
02. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando
03. Adagio molto e mesto
04. Allegro

String Quartet in e minor op. 59 no. 2 (1806)
05. Allegro
06. Molto Adagio
07. Allegretto
08. Finale: Presto

Disc 2
String Quartet in C major op. 59 no. 3 (1806) “Razumovsky”
01. Introduzione: Andante con moto. Allegro vivace
02. Andante con moto quasi Allegretto
03. Menuetto
04. Allegretto molto

String Quintet in C major op. 29 (1801)
05. Allegro moderato
06. Adagio molto espressivo
07. Scherzo. Allegro
08. Finale. Presto

This recording, by two generations of musicians from the Kuijken family (Veronica, Sigiswald, Sara and Wieland Kuijken), with my wife Marleen Thiers, 2nd viola in the quintet, was made with so-called ‘modern’ instruments. Although our name is generally linked with ‘period performance practice’, listeners should not expect or seek a deliberate, specific ‘historic’ tendency in this recording: this was not what defined our collaboration for this production… I would even venture to say that in the first place we allowed ourselves to be moved and motivated by the immense strength exuded by these Beethoven pieces, based on our own musical experience and intuition; what we shared was astonishment – and joy. As we went along we became increasingly aware that it can be a gift to have kindred genes; and that an instrument is simply an instrument, no more… Sigiswald Kuijken