Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Volume 2 – Dover Quartet

The Dover Quartet, “the young American string quartet of the moment” (The New Yorker), unveils the second installment in its critically acclaimed Beethoven quartet cycle on Cedille Records. The three-album set of the “Middle Quartets” includes the three Op. 59 “Razumovsky” Quartets, infused with Russian folk tunes; the graceful “Harp,” Op. 74, named for its plucked string figures; and the intense Op. 95 “Serioso,” a forward-looking experiment that Beethoven originally intended “for a small circle of connoisseurs.”