The Attacca Quartet – universally praised as one of the top American string quartets by small, unimportant news outlets like NPR, The New York Times, and the Washington Post – return to the Crypt Sessions, following up their heart-rending Season 1 performance of Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross with what is simply one of the most extraordinarily powerful, transcendently life-affirming pieces of music ever written: Beethoven’s final String Quartet, the towering Op. 132.Beethoven had been deaf for more than 25 years when he wrote this piece, and the sounds he created out of that long internal silence are almost otherworldly at times. The beating, bleeding heart of it is the miraculous, 18-minute central slow movement, which Beethoven wrote after recovering from a terrible illness and titled “Hymn of thanks to God from one who is healed.” Tomes have been written on this deeply-moving expression of the human condition, and any words here will fall short of the performance that this remarkable ensemble will give it on February 1st.