Watch: Beethoven’s 7th played by viola quintet

Watch: Beethoven’s 7th played by viola quintet

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norman lebrecht

November 19, 2017

Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo String Quartet has found an 1816 arrangement for viola quintet of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and gave its first modern performance this summer at the Heifetz Institute – rearranged for two violas, two violins and cello.

It’s weirdly effective.

Watch.

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