 | from Haydn: String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & Seven Last Words (CDA68410) 1 Allegro moderato [8'28] 27 minutes 46 seconds 4 tracks2 Menuetto: Presto ma non troppo – Trio [4'45] 3 Andante [8'21] 4 Finale: Vivace assai [6'12] ‘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 ... |