Bethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
After ‘Inventions’, ‘Revelations’is the secondvolume in a complete set of theBeethoven quartets that breaks new ground: it aims to regroupthe works according to theirposition within the three broad creativedivisions of the composer’s life –the formative years, the ‘heroic’period and the late period. This programme assembles the‘medianquartets’, in other words the works thatprolonged andconsolidated the stylistic innovations outlined at the beginning of each of these creative periods. ‘It’ll be fascinating to hear the next instalment’ (Gramophone).