“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future,” writes T.S. Eliot at the beginning of his Four Quartets. The work was in part inspired by Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 132, which Eliot found “quite inexhaustible” as a musical study. While not the bounciest of Beethoven’s works—a descriptor more appropriate to his early quartets—Eliot found “a sort of heavenly, or at least more than human gaiety, about some of [Beethoven’s] later things which one imagines might come to oneself as the fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering.”
Time Future
New recordings by the Danish String Quartet and Wild Up
