Haydn - String Quartets op.74 & Folk Music from Scotland | Linn CKD641

Haydn - String Quartets op.74 & Folk Music from Scotland

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Label: Linn

Cat No: CKD641

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 15th January 2021

Contents

Artists

Maxwell Quartet

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

String Quartets (3), op.74

Artists

Maxwell Quartet

About

Following the exceptional success of its debut album the Maxwell Quartet returns with it second recording of Haydn. The intriguing juxtaposition of Haydn string quartets with traditional Scottish folk music once again forms the basis of the programme. MusicWeb International named Haydn: String Quartets op.71 as one of its Recordings of the Year, stating: ‘... letting this superb playing simply wash over you has been one of the year’s great pleasures.’ The prize-winning quartet is performing Haydn’s Op.74 and their selection of folk music will include traditional tunes from the Highlands and Shetland plus music by Niel Gow, Jean Finlayson of Lewis and Isaac Cooper of Banff.

Following the Maxwell’s performance of Haydn’s String Quartet in F, op.74 no.2, at the 2020 Edinburgh International Festival, The Scotsman wrote: ‘Such distinctive personality informed Tuesday’s opening performance … its finely tailored Classicism enlivened with light-hearted repartee and risky spontaneity.’ Maxwell Quartet are currently scheduled to perform at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, 30cc Leuven and Wigmore Hall, London, in January 2021 and will tour the US in February 2021.

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Reviews

this album would remain remarkable for the joy and energy of these Scottish musicians, ideal interpreters of Haydn’s mischievous jokes, sudden mood swings and lyrical ingenuity.
The Times
Fine Haydn playing regardless of the Scottish folk songs that just add to the charm of the whole thing
Record Review (BBC Radio 3)

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