In its explicit bid to “newly illuminate” Beethoven's quartet works, the Cuarteto Casals has chosen a characteristically innovative structural arrangement for its studio recordings. The works will not be presented in the typical grouping of early, middle and late periods: rather they will be arranged according to each quartet’s place within Beethoven’s musical development. In each of these three periods, there are works of the “beginning”, i.e. of first inspiration and exploration (“Inventions”), followed by works of the “centre”, i.e. works with in which the full potential of Beethoven’s language is fully realised (“Revelations”), and finally works of “transfiguration”: a conclusion or closing, yet with an intimation of possibilities to come (“Apotheosis”). The first of the three box-sets, “Inventions” (with op. 18,1; op. 18,3; op. 18,4; op. 59,1; op. 127; op. 135), is scheduled to appear on harmonia mundi in June/July 2018, and the remaining two sets will be issued in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
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