http://classical-scene.com/2009/12/04/chiara-quartet-scales-mt-beethoven/ a virtual journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston Tue, 22 May 2012 14:09:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://classical-scene.com/2009/12/04/chiara-quartet-scales-mt-beethoven/comment-page-1/#comment-1033 Laurence Glavin Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:59:34 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=2145#comment-1033 Ooops..I left off the A-minor Quartet opus 132, which IS the 15th in order of publication. How could I forget: the NY Times just ran a review of a combined reading of T. S. Eliot poetry inspired by this work, followed by a performance of the quartet itself. Ooops..I left off the A-minor Quartet opus 132, which IS the 15th in order of publication. How could I forget: the NY Times just ran a review of a combined reading of T. S. Eliot poetry inspired by this work, followed by a performance of the quartet itself.

]]> http://classical-scene.com/2009/12/04/chiara-quartet-scales-mt-beethoven/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 Laurence Glavin Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:00:50 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=2145#comment-1021 Mr. Koven's review and the program notes both leave the impression that the Opus 135 SQ is number 15. As Pythagoras once said, let's do the math: Opus 18 contains 6 quartets...opus 59, 3...then you have the "Harp" Quartet #10...the "Serioso" Quartet # 11 that students at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia had to study whether they were piano, brass, woodwind or voice students, according to the NY Times...then the "Eroica"-length quartets 12, 13 and 14. The "Grosse Fugue" that originally ended #13 got outsourced to a standalone quartet-movement, so the Opus 135 should be the SIXTEENTH it appears to me. Mr. Koven’s review and the program notes both leave the impression that the Opus 135 SQ is number 15. As Pythagoras once said, let’s do the math: Opus 18 contains 6 quartets…opus 59, 3…then you have the “Harp” Quartet #10…the “Serioso” Quartet # 11 that students at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia had to study whether they were piano, brass, woodwind or voice students, according to the NY Times…then the “Eroica”-length quartets 12, 13 and 14. The “Grosse Fugue” that originally ended #13 got outsourced to a standalone quartet-movement, so the Opus 135 should be the SIXTEENTH it appears to me.

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