about this recording:
It may be called a sensation when today works of Beethoven are being found that so far had been absolutely unknown to the world. The only remaining copy of this "Fourth Book of Quartets", published 1828 with Pacini in Paris (the third book containing the quartets op. 59), is part of a collection of pieces of music which Duke Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha had compiled around 1870. That Beethoven really is the author of these arrangements can be concluded from the apt transcription as well as from various business contacts between Beethoven's brother Johann and the publisher in Paris since around 1820.