This Beethoven Quartet cycle is Canada’s famed Orford Quartet’s crowning achievement on disc.

Annual Editors’ Choice Award “The superb Orford Quartet’s Beethoven cycle [is] solid, vibrant, intelligent, and, most importantly, satisfying on the highest musical level.” – CD Review

“An exceptional Beethoven series…The performances are of a consistency in depth and variety of tone, in musical concentration and sheer freshness of interpretation, which makes other digital cycles by more familiar names seem pale by comparison.” – The Times of London

“A single word for these performances might be ‘passionate’ …heartfelt playing and stimulating listening.” – The New York Times

“These players really understand. They have their Beethoven superbly in hand, enthusiastically, intelligently, with immense drama in all the right places.” – Audio

“I can’t imagine Beethoven would have wanted anything more from these quartets than the Orford Quartet delivers.” – Buffalo News

Complete Contents
THE COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS OF BEETHOVEN 8-CD Set, or available on individual discs (volumes) as follows:
Opus 18, No. 1 in F Major [29:45] – volume I
Opus 18, No. 2 in G Major [25:16] – volume II
Opus 18, No. 3 in D Major [27:05] – volume VI
Opus 18, No. 4 in C Minor [24:33] – volume VII
Opus 18, No. 5 in A Major [29:26] – volume III
Opus 18, No. 6 in B-Flat Major [26:25] – volume VIII
Opus 59, No. 1 in F Major (“Razumovsky”) [42:31] – volume III
Opus 59, No. 2 in E Minor (“Razumovsky”) [38:43] – volume IV
Opus 59, No. 3 in C Major (“Razumovsky”) [31:23] – volume V
Opus 74, in E-Flat Major (“Harfen”) [32:04] – volume V
Opus 95 in F Minor (“Serioso”) [23:09] – volume IV
Opus 127 in E-Flat Major [41:08] – volume I
Opus 130 in B-Flat Major [37:07] – volume II
Opus 131 in C-Sharp Minor [39:34] – volume VI
Opus 132 in A Minor [43:38] – volume VII
Opus 133 – Grosse Fuge [15:05] – volume VIII
Opus 135 in F Major [24:00] – volume VIII

THE ORFORD STRING QUARTET
Andrew Dawes, violin * Kenneth Perkins, violin * Terence Helmer, viola * Denis Brott, cello

Volume I – DE 3031, (Op. 18, No. 1 and Op. 127) Total playing time: 71:70
Volume II – DE 3032, (Op. 18, No. 2 and Op. 130) Total playing time: 62:36
Volume III – DE 3033, (Op. 59, No. 1 and Op. 18, No.5) Total playing time: 72:09
Volume IV – DE 3034, (Op. 59, No. 2 and Op. 95) Total playing time: 62:06
Volume V – DE 3035, (Op. 59, No. 3 and Op. 74) Total playing time: 63:37
Volume VI – DE 3036, (Op. 18, No. 3 and Op. 131) Total playing time: 66:56
Volume VII – DE 3037, (Op. 18, No. 4 and Op. 132) Total playing time: 68:21
Volume VIII – DE 3038, (Op. 18, No. 6, Op. 135, and Grosse Fuge) Total playing time: 65:50