Novus String Quartet switches effortlessly between Beethoven's many expressive registers.
A rejected marriage proposal may explain the melancholy undertone of Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 95. But even without this biographical context, every Beethoven quartet is brimming with emotions, neatly controlled in the early quartets, and unrestrainedly vented in the late ones. The musicians of the South Korean Novus String Quartet, universally acclaimed for their solid and balanced interplay, switch effortlessly between the many expressive registers that Beethoven taps into in these three string quartets.