Quatuor Ébène, Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Le Magadure, Marie Chilemme, Yuya Okamoto

The Quatuor Ébène concludes its Beethoven quartets cycle. For its finale, the quartet performs the “Grosse Fuge”, which the composer originally wrote as the closing movement of his Op. 130. The work proved too challenging for many of Beethoven’s contemporaries, leading him to replace it with a new finale, publishing the fugue separately.