Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Quatuor Van Kuijk
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA587
Release: 2020
Size: 1.23 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K. 515
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Menuetto. Allegretto
04. IV. Allegro
String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Menuetto and Trio. Allegretto
07. III. Adagio ma non troppo
08. IV. Adagio – Allegro
As in its Schubert recording in 2018, the Quatuor van Kuijk likes to delve into a composer’s youthful output and then measure his evolution by confronting it with his mature works. Hence, after recording two of Mozart’s early string quartets in 2016, the French group, here joined by violist Adrien La Marca, now offers the String Quintets K. 515 and K. 516. These two large-scale works dominate Mozart’s instrumental output in the year 1787, which ended with the premiere of Don Giovanni. They show us a composer at the height of his creative powers, in a genre to which he had not returned for fourteen years and which he herebrought to a high degree of formal perfection.