Two of Beethoven’s most popular middle-period String Quartets are coupled here in critically-acclaimed performances for Deutsche Grammophon by the Amadeus Quartet.

In mid-1987, the Amadeus Quartet (under the slightly differentiated name ‘Amadeus String Quartet’ to distinguish them from their Deutsche Grammophon recordings) went into the studio to begin a projected cycle of the complete Beethoven quartets. In the event, they are the last recordings ever to be made by the Quartet, for the death of Peter […]