Anton Reicha: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 48, No. 3: IV. Allegro vivace by Toccata Classics published on 2014-03-17T19:13:51Z Music: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 48, No. 3: IV. Allegro vivace Composer: Anton Reicha Artists: Kreutzer Quartet Album: Anton Reicha: Complete String Quartets, Volume Two Label: Toccata Classics TOCC 0040 Purchase: http://bit.ly/OwfKcc The Czech-born composer Anton Reicha (1770–1836) was an exact contemporary of Beethoven, and his close friend from their mid-teens. The music of each man demonstrates an awareness of what the other was doing: they showed each other their compositions-in-progress. But although Reicha was closely associated with one of the best-known names in western culture, his own music has been grievously neglected: only his woodwind quintets have achieved any currency. Of his vast cycle of almost forty string quartets just one had been recorded before – an omission this ambitious project intends to put right, thereby revealing one of the most inventive and engaging spirits in classical music. Genre classical