95; and during the last two years of his life, when he wrote the searching, sometimes staggering late quartets (Op. “With Beethoven,” Mr. Norgaard said, “you have the full story.”My listening marathon gave me an acute awareness of the extraordinary range of sensations Beethoven depicts. (The Ninth Symphony came before the late quartets.) 18 quartets. The Razumovsky quartets mark a leap.

Source: New York Times February 04, 2020 17:48 UTC