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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sheer energy, December 8, 2005
This review is from: Beethoven: String Quartets Op.18, No.1&2 (Audio CD)
From the Melos Quartet I've only found a cassette rendition of the middle (Razumovsky etc.) quartets and this cd (with its companion volume 18/3 and Op. 14), but of the dozen performances I know, these are for me the definitive recordings of these quartets. The Melos quartet plays in a staccato style with a level of energy and passion that I have not experienced in other recordings of the Beethoven quartets. The recordings are quite clean, and they place you square in the very center of the quartet in a hugely reverbrant hall. This is exciting Beethoven. If you like your Beethoven exciting, these are performances you will want to own and hear again and again.
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