Quatuor Voce

Beethoven

Voce Quartet

Cécile Roubin, violin

Sarah Dayan, violin

Guillaume Becker, viola

Florian Frère, cello

‘In the three quartets recorded here by the Quatuor Voce, Beethoven created a musical world of his own by tackling new and essential compositional problems: In Opus 18 No. 1, he invented a new way of treating the motif and introduced a patétaic dimanesion into the genre; in Opus 59 No. 2, he took a particular interest in the circularity of forms and lines, refined the dialogue between voices and delved into the roots of the sky to invent, from a ‘meditation under the starry sky’, a new type of musical spirituality. With Opus 95, he abandoned the exploration of grand architectures; aiming for concentration and concision, he was interested in rapid changes in the state of discourse and in ways of pushing dramatic intensity to the limit.’

- Bernard Fournier