Beethoven Opus 127 N Kitchen Manuscript Edition Borromeo String Quartet

Nicholas Kitchen and the Borromeo String Quartet (Nicholas Kitchen and Kristopher Tong, Violins; Mai Motobuchi, Viola; Yeesun Kim, Cello; Ensemble in Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music, the Heifetz International Music Institute and the Taos School of Music) have done extensive work with Beethoven manuscripts, using them directly in rehearsal with the aid of computers and page-turning pedals. Through this work they have noticed that Beethoven used a much more extensive system of expressive marking in his manuscripts than is shown in print. Thus, in Beethoven’s manuscripts there are twenty dynamics instead of nine, four types of staccato instead of one or two, two types of expressive swell pairs instead of one. Nicholas Kitchen has prepared an edition of Op. 127 so that other musicians can observe and evaluate these markings. This video shares this edition by synchronizing it with a rendition of Beethoven Opus 127 by the Borromeo Quartet from summer 2019. The same system of expressive m