Haydn - String Quartets
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Label: Supraphon
Cat No: SU43262
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 26th May 2023
Contents
Works
String Quartets (3), op.54Artists
Bennewitz QuartetWorks
String Quartets (3), op.54Artists
Bennewitz QuartetAbout
Joseph Haydn played a key role in forging the quartet’s classical form. He created almost 70 string quartets, which, along with the symphonies, constitute the largest, as well as the most significant, part of his oeuvre. Haydn accorded them the form that would serve as the model for Mozart, Beethoven and later composers. Just as fascinating as the quantity is his quartets’ sheer diversity, with each of them being singular, featuring novel (often humorous) ideas, experiments, as well as constant seeking of new possibilities of expression.
The three quartets included on the present album chart the development of Haydn’s musical idiom, from op.17 (1771), which he wrote at the age of 40, through op.33, dubbed “Gli Scherzi” (1781, dedicated to the Grand Duke of Russia Pavel Petrovich, the future Tsar Paul I), to the formally experimental pieces making up op.54 (1788).
The Bennewitz Quartet have given numerous concerts worldwide, including at the most prestigious venues (Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, concert halls in New York, Seoul, etc.) and such renowned festivals as the Salzburger Festspiele, Lucerne Festival and Rheingau Musik Festival. At many of them, they have performed quartets by Haydn, one of their favourite composers, whose music they endow with a transparent sound, revealing their levity and sense for detail.
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