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Danish String Quartet

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The fifth and final installment of the highly acclaimed Prism series by this acclaimed quartetThe Danish String Quartets highly acclaimed Prism series finally comes to a close with this fifth installment. It has been an eight-year project. Each album in the series paired a distinctive Bach fugue with a late Beethoven string quartet, or a Beethoven string quartet with a work by a later master, reflecting the ensemble members statement that the light of music is refracted through the prism of Beethoven. The British newspaper *The Guardian* wrote, The approach itself leads us spontaneously and wholeheartedly to listen. This group plays with virtuosity, intensity, and affection. Johann Sebastian Bachs chorale prelude I Come Before Your Throne began as if a flower were blooming (liner notes by music critic Paul Griffiths), followed by Ludwig van Beethovens String Quartet No. 16 in F major,