String Quartet in B flat major, Op 9 No 5 (Haydn)
from Haydn: String Quartets Op 9 (CDA67611)
1 Poco adagio [7'25]
2 Menuetto – Allegretto [2'35]
3 Cantabile largo [10'18]
4 Presto [5'19]
25 minutes 37 seconds 4 tracks
‘I quickly warmed to the pure, glowing sound of gut strings played perfectly in tune, and to the ensemble's delicacy of nuance and sensitivity to harmonic colour, treating the listener as a privileged ...
‘A sonority that seems brighter and less astringent than that produced by 'period' ensembles, but one that is still far closer to what we assume to be the timbre of an eighteenth-century quartet  ...
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