CD V
Disc V begins with Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major, op. 18, no. 1, the first of what would be the quartet medium’s seminal cycle of sixteen and a harbinger of the young Beethoven’s powerful voice.
Two similarly powerful musical documents, evocative of a wholly different world from nineteenth-century Vienna, follow :
Erwin Schulhoff’s devastating String Sextet, composed in the wake of the First World War, and Bartók’s spirited Divertimento for Strings, composed as a means of profound catharsis with Europe on the brink of World War II.

Ludwig van Beethoven : String Quartet no. 1 in F Major, op. 18, no. 1 (28:46)
Danish String Quartet

• Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin
• Frederik Øland, violin
• Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola
• Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, cello

Erwin Schulhoff : String Sextet (24:27)

• Dmitri Atapine, Cello
• Benjamin Beilman, Violin
• Nicolas Dautricourt, Violin
• Narek Hakhnazaryan, Cello
• Yura Lee, Viola
• Paul Neubauer, Viola

Béla Bartók : Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz. 113, BB 118 (23:16)

• Adam Barnett-Hart, Violin
• Aaron Boyd, Violin
• Sunmi Chang, Violin
• Jorja Fleezanis, Violin
• Dane Johansen, Cello
• Erin Keefe, Violin
• Pierre Lapointe, Viola
• Kristin Lee, Violin
• Sean Lee, Violin
• Asbjørn Nørgaard, Viola
• Scott Pingel, Double Bass
• Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, Cello
• Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, Violin
• Frederik Øland, Violin