String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op.59 No.1 "Razumovsky" by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 -1829).

I. Allegro (F major)
II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando (B♭ major)
III. Adagio molto e mesto – attacca (F minor)
IV. "Thème Russe": Allegro (F major)

Borromeo String Quartet:

Nicholas Kitchen, first violin
Kristopher Tong, violin
Mai Motobuchi, viola
Yessun Kim, cello

March 8, 2020

String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59, No. 1, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published in 1808.
This work is the first of three quartets commissioned by prince Andrey Razumovsky, then the Russian ambassador to Vienna. This quartet is the first of Beethoven's middle period quartets and departs in style from his earlier Op. 18 quartets. The most apparent difference is that this quartet is over forty minutes long in a typical performance, whereas most of Beethoven's earlier quartets lasted twenty-five to thirty minutes. Furthermore, this quartet notoriously requires a greatly expanded technical repertoire.

The majestic slow third movement is in sonata form.

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