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Presumed Beethoven. The Six String Quartets, Anh. 2 (Vol 2)
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Presumed Beethoven. The Six String Quartets, Anh. 2 (Vol 2)

A Fascinating Glimpse Into Beethoven’s Earliest Chamber Music Experiments.

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In 1927, at the time of the first Beethoven centenary, the celebrated French musicologist Saint-Foix drew attention to an anonymous manuscript collection of six quartets that once belonged to the publisher Domenico (III) Artaria and is today preserved at the Berlin State Library. He conjectured that these pieces could be the very first experiments of a young Beethoven, then still an adolescent, in a genre that he would properly inaugurate when he published his op. 18 set in his early thirties. On the strength of this theory, the collection was included in the Beethoven catalogue, though listed among the works of doubtful attribution, where it has remained awaiting further musicological research. With the world premiere recording of the Six Quartets Anh. 2, the Alla Maniera Italiana Quartet brings back to light a precious collection of chamber music that is still enveloped in mystery, in a historically informed performance based on a close study of the Berlin parts, thereby offering an original contribution to the forthcoming Beethoven bicentenary.
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Tracklist

Total time: 42:12

1. String Quartet in F Minor, Anh. 2 No. 4: I. Largo. Fantesia
02:55
2. String Quartet in F Minor, Anh. 2 No. 4: I. Allegro
02:20
3. String Quartet in F Minor, Anh. 2 No. 4: II. Menuetto. Moderato - Trio
03:25
4. String Quartet in F Minor, Anh. 2 No. 4: III. Rondò. Prestino
04:14
5. String Quartet in D Major, Anh. 2 No. 5: I. Allegro
07:35
6. String Quartet in D Major, Anh. 2 No. 5: II. Adagio
03:58
7. String Quartet in D Major, Anh. 2 No. 5: III. Rondò. Allegro molto
04:26
8. String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Anh. 2 No. 6: I. Allegro moderato
06:12
9. String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Anh. 2 No. 6: II. Andante con variazioni
07:07

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Label
Arcana
SKU
A5912
Qualities
DSD 512, DSD 256, WAV 192 kHz, DSD 128, WAV 96 kHz, DSD 64, DXD 24 Bit
Channels
2ch Stereo
Composers
Beethoven
Genres
Classical
Original Recording Format
PCM 96k
Recording Location
L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora, Mondaino (Ravenna), Italy
Recording Engineer
Fabio Framba
Release Date
May 29, 2026
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Presumed Beethoven. The Six String Quartets, Anh. 2 (Vol 2)

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