Mozart - String Quartets Vol.3
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Label: C-AVI
Cat No: AVI8553032
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 22nd January 2021
Contents
Works
String Quartet no.2 in D major, K155String Quartet no.8 in F major, K168
String Quartet no.12 in B flat major, K172
String Quartet no.14 in G major, K387
String Quartet no.21 in D major, K575 'Prussian'
String Quartet no.23 in F major, K590 'Prussian'
Artists
Armida QuartettAbout
With the recordings on this CD, the Armida Quartett has reached the halfway mark in a project that seeks to intimately explore an entire mountain range. Mozart’s complete works for string quartet, to which they devote intense scrutiny within the framework of a recital series that pairs them with contemporary works specifically commissioned for the occasion.
This requires our musicians to pay a particularly attentive ear: history remains unscathed, but the members of the Armida Quartett want to call ingrained listening habits into question. By implication, they explore Mozart’s works as if the composer was looking over their shoulder. In collaboration with Henle music publishers and musicologist Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, they have embarked on a “workshop exploration” of Mozart’s string quartets in the original manuscript.
The occasional discovery of certain hitherto overlooked details leads them to interpret certain passages in exciting new ways. All the while, they gain increasing familiarity and assurance as they delve ever more deeply into the master’s musical language. The sources also confirm something that Mozart alluded to in his dedication of the six “Haydn” Quartets to his revered colleague: the fact that the work of composing can be painstaking, at times laborious.
Haydn, in return, testified to Mozart’s “greatest science of composition”, which not only implied a high level of mastery, but also the younger colleague’s capacity to ensure that the listener never felt annoyed or overwhelmed, since Mozart, as Haydn assured, “has taste”.
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