This Beethoven Quartet cycle is Canada's famed Orford Quartet's crowning achievement on disc.

Annual Editors' Choice Award "The superb Orford Quartet's Beethoven cycle [is] solid, vibrant, intelligent, and, most importantly, satisfying on the highest musical level." - CD Review

"an exceptional Beethoven series...The performances are of a consistency in depth and variety of tone, in musical concentration and sheer freshness of interpretation, which makes other digital cycles by more familiar names seem pale by comparison." - The Times of London

"A single word for these performances might be 'passionate' ...heartfelt playing and stimulating listening." - The New York Times

"These players really understand. They have their Beethoven superbly in hand, enthusiastically, intelligently, with immense drama in all the right places." - Audio

"I can't imagine Beethoven would have wanted anything more from these quartets than the Orford Quartet delivers." - Buffalo News

Complete Contents

THE COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS OF BEETHOVEN

8-CD Set, or available on individual discs (volumes) as follows:

• Opus 18, No. 1 in F Major [29:45] - volume I
• Opus 18, No. 2 in G Major [25:16] - volume II
• Opus 18, No. 3 in D Major [27:05] - volume VI
• Opus 18, No. 4 in C Minor [24:33] - volume VII
• Opus 18, No. 5 in A Major [29:26] - volume III
• Opus 18, No. 6 in B-Flat Major [26:25] - volume VIII
• Opus 59, No. 1 in F Major ("Razumovsky") [42:31] - volume III
• Opus 59, No. 2 in E Minor ("Razumovsky") [38:43] - volume IV
• Opus 59, No. 3 in C Major ("Razumovsky") [31:23] - volume V
• Opus 74, in E-Flat Major ("Harfen") [32:04] - volume V
• Opus 95 in F Minor ("Serioso") [23:09] - volume IV
• Opus 127 in E-Flat Major [41:08] - volume I
• Opus 130 in B-Flat Major [37:07] - volume II
• Opus 131 in C-Sharp Minor [39:34] - volume VI
• Opus 132 in A Minor [43:38] - volume VII
• Opus 133 - Große Fuge [15:05] - volume VIII
• Opus 135 in F Major [24:00] - volume VIII

THE ORFORD STRING QUARTET

• Andrew Dawes, violin
• Kenneth Perkins, violin
• Terence Helmer, viola
• Denis Brott, cello

• Volume I - DE 3031, (Op. 18, No. 1 and Op. 127) Total playing time: 71:70
• Volume II - DE 3032, (Op. 18, No. 2 and Op. 130) Total playing time: 62:36
• Volume III - DE 3033, (Op. 59, No. 1 and Op. 18, No.5) Total playing time: 72:09
• Volume IV - DE 3034, (Op. 59, No. 2 and Op. 95) Total playing time: 62:06
• Volume V - DE 3035, (Op. 59, No. 3 and Op. 74) Total playing time: 63:37
• Volume VI - DE 3036, (Op. 18, No. 3 and Op. 131) Total playing time: 66:56
• Volume VII - DE 3037, (Op. 18, No. 4 and Op. 132) Total playing time: 68:21
• Volume VIII - DE 3038, (Op. 18, No. 6, Op. 135, and Große Fuge) Total playing time: 65:50