The London Haydn Quartet, playing period instruments, accept them unreservedly. As may have Donald Tovey, who said, “Not even Op 76 is, on its own plane, so uniformly weighty and so varied in ...
The group’s period-instrument sonority and basic approach will be familiar from earlier releases in this series: sparing use of vibrato (but liberal use of rubato), observance of all repeats in the ...
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: Judith van Driel (violin 1), Marleen Wester (violin 2), Marie-Louise de Jong (viola) & David Faber (cello) The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart ...
Haydn’s String Quartet Opus 20 No. 2 is one of six quartets from Haydn’s mid-career which became a milestone in the development of the genre. Possibly the most interesting of the set, it combines ...