The last of this set of three quartets is perhaps the most extraordinary. Over its triumphant final movement Beethoven scribbled the words: 'Let your deafness be no secret, not even in art.'
The Lindsay Quartet: Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola) Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), plays the Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3
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