String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 (Haydn)
from Haydn: String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & Seven Last Words (CDA68410)
1 Allegro moderato [7'28]
2 Adagio [7'02]
3 Menuetto: Presto – Trio [4'01]
4 Finale: Presto [5'44]
24 minutes 15 seconds 4 tracks
‘No one who loves this glorious music could have hoped for a better finish … the more I returned to these performances, the more I found myself warming to their fantasy, their disciplined spontan ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘The bare, bleak sounds [of the ‘Introduction' to The Seven Last Words]—those pauses as punctuation—and the carefully controlled vibrato make the start of the piece stark and startling just as ...