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  <Title>Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets - Vol. 8</Title>
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  <ReleaseDate>2017.09.01</ReleaseDate>
  <ReviewExcerpt language="de">"Als Zuhörer folgt man gebannt, ist man gefesselt: Die Musik lässt nicht los. Mehr kann man von Interpreten eigentlich nicht verlangen!" (Pizzicato)</ReviewExcerpt>
  <ReviewExcerpt language="en">"Quartetto di Cremona finishes their outstanding Beethoven cycle with vibrant and highly passionate performances." (Pizzicato)</ReviewExcerpt>
  <ShortCommtent>To conclude their great Beethoven cycle, the Quartetto di Cremona have chosen two masterworks from the composer’s early and middle periods: the Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3, with its tempestuous final tarantella, and the “Harp” Quartet, Op. 74, which does not feature a harp but instead presents Beethoven on his way to modernism.</ShortCommtent>
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      <Title>I. Allegro</Title>
      <DateOfRecording>2015-11-27</DateOfRecording>
      <CompleteWork>String Quartet in D Major, Op.18, No. 3</CompleteWork>
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          <Surname>Beethoven</Surname>
          <Firstname>Ludwig van</Firstname>
          <Born>17.12.1770</Born>
          <Died>26.03.1827</Died>
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      <Title>II. Andante con moto</Title>
      <DateOfRecording>2015-11-27</DateOfRecording>
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          <Surname>Beethoven</Surname>
          <Firstname>Ludwig van</Firstname>
          <Born>17.12.1770</Born>
          <Died>26.03.1827</Died>
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      <Title>III. Allegro</Title>
      <DateOfRecording>2015-11-27</DateOfRecording>
      <CompleteWork>String Quartet in D Major, Op.18, No. 3</CompleteWork>
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          <Surname>Beethoven</Surname>
          <Firstname>Ludwig van</Firstname>
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      <Title>IV. Presto</Title>
      <DateOfRecording>2015-11-27</DateOfRecording>
      <CompleteWork>String Quartet in D Major, Op.18, No. 3</CompleteWork>
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          <Surname>Beethoven</Surname>
          <Firstname>Ludwig van</Firstname>
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      <Title>I. Poco Adagio - Allegro</Title>
      <DateOfRecording>2015-11-27</DateOfRecording>
      <CompleteWork>String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 74 'Harp'</CompleteWork>
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          <Surname>Beethoven</Surname>
          <Firstname>Ludwig van</Firstname>
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      <Title>II. Adagio ma non troppo</Title>
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      <CompleteWork>String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 74 'Harp'</CompleteWork>
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      <Title>IV. Allegretto con Variazioni</Title>
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