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STRING QUARTETS

Peter Cropper
Introduced by Peter Cropper

Peter Cropper of the Lindsay String Quartet will be introducing Beethoven's String Quartets throughout The Beethoven Experience.

Click on some of the links in the list below for background information about the works.

    String Quartet in F major op.18'1

    String Quartet in F major Hess 32 (1st version of op.18'1)

    String Quartet in G major op. 18'2

    String Quartet in D major op.18'3

    String Quartet in C Minor op. 18'4

    String Quartet in A Major op. 18'5

    String Quartet in B flat major op. 18'6

    Quartet in F major (arr. of piano sonata Op.14/1) Hess 34
    Hess 34 - second broadcast

    Prelude & Fugue in F major Hess 30

    Prelude & Fugue in C major Hess 31

    Minuet in A flat major Hess 33

    String Quartet arrangement of the fugue from the Overture to Handel's Solomon Hess 36

    String Quartet in F major 'Razumovsky' op.59'1

    String Quartet in E minor 'Razumovsky' op.59'2

    String Quartet in C major 'Razumovsky'op.59'3

    String Quartet in E flat major 'Harp' op.74

    String Quartet in F minor 'Quartetto Serioso' op.95

    String Quartet in E flat major op.127

    String Quartet in C sharp minor op.131

    String Quartet in B flat major op.130

    Grosse Fugue, Op.133

    String Quartet in A minor op.132

    String Quartet in F major op.135

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