The third installment of the Danish String Quartet's Prism series illustrates how Bach's fugues are refracted through Beethoven's quartets, thereby casting the works of later composers in a new light. "Beethoven had adopted a fundamentally linear approach to development from Bach," the Danes explain, "and dissolved everything into myriad different colors, directions, and possibilities—much like a prism splits a beam of light." In this recording, the quartet follows this musical path, beginning with Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue in C-sharp minor from WTC I, through Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, and culminating in Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1.
