Boston University Center for Beethoven Research (BUCBR)

[Quijote]

These guys had an international Beethoven conference in March of this year (2022) under the title "Reframing Beethoven"

Here's a link to a conference paper by Robert Riggs titled "Joseph Joachim and the Reception of Beethoven's Late String Quartets":
https://www.bu.edu/beethovencenter/f...n-Research.pdf

And here's the link to the BUCBR for any of you that might be interested: https://www.bu.edu/beethovencenter/

[Peter]

Now if only we had quality 19th century recordings! Interesting Op.95 was the most performed since it was the one Beethoven reserved for private consumption.

[Zevy]

Now if only we had quality 19th century recordings! Interesting Op.95 was the most performed since it was the one Beethoven reserved for private consumption.

I was just listening to Op. 95 today. I think it draws its charm from the fact that it is, arguably, the beginning of the late period of quartets, and at the same time is "bite size". It is somewhat shorter than most of the quartets, if not the shortest of all.