One of the best kept secrets of chamber music, Beethoven's String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29, was written between the well known 'early' and 'middle' string quartets. This strangely neglected masterpiece of startling originality is coupled here with Beethoven's own transcription for String Quintet of his early Piano Trio in C minor and the Fugue in D major, a musical curiosity written as an inducement to his publisher to make fewer printing errors!
The Fine Arts Quartet has made many highly acclaimed Naxos recordings