Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer: The London Haydn Quartet
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words’?heard here in the composer’s own arrangement for string quartet?is simply sublime, and a fitting testimonial to the composer’s deep, enduring faith. It provides an apt and generous coupling for the two magnificent Op 77 quartets, Haydn’s final complete contribution to the string quartet genre. Haydn: String Quartets Op 76 CDA68335: “Some of the greatest, most formally innovative, inventive and deeply felt string quartets ever composed, delivered by a quartet of players of faultless intonation, unanimity and blend.” – BBC Music Magazine String Quartets Opp 71 & 74 CDA68230: “There are moments where it’s really stunning and I don’t think it could have been done quite so well in any other way…wonderful stuff.” – BBC Record Review
Catalogue: CDA68410
Release: 2023
Size: 5.04 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
String Quartet, Op. 77 No. 1 in G major
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Menuetto: Presto – Trio
04. IV. Finale: Presto
String Quartet, Op. 77 No. 2 in F major
05. I. Allegro moderato
06. II. Menuetto: Presto ma non troppo – Trio
07. III. Andante
08. IV. Finale: Vivace assai
String Quartet, Op. 42 in D minor
09. I. Andante ed innocentemente
10. II. Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio
11. III. Adagio e cantabile
12. IV. Finale: Presto
CD 02
String Quartet, Op. 51 ‘Seven Last Words’
01. I. L’introduzione: Maestoso ed adagio
02. II. Sonata I: Largo ‘Pater, dimitte illis, quia nesciunt, quid faciunt’
03. III. Sonata II: Grave e cantabile ‘Hodie mecum eris in paradiso’
04. IV. Sonata III: Grave ‘Mulier, ecce filius tuus’
05. V. Sonata IV: Largo ‘Deus meus, Deus meus, utquid dereliquisti me?’
06. VI. Sonata V: Adagio ‘Sitio’
07. VII. Sonata VI: Lento ‘Consummatum est’
08. VIII. Sonata VII: Largo ‘In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum’
09. IX. Il Terremoto: Presto e con tutta la forza
Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words’?heard here in the composer’s own arrangement for string quartet?is simply sublime, and a fitting testimonial to the composer’s deep, enduring faith. It provides an apt and generous coupling for the two magnificent Op 77 quartets, Haydn’s final complete contribution to the string quartet genre. Haydn: String Quartets Op 76 CDA68335: “Some of the greatest, most formally innovative, inventive and deeply felt string quartets ever composed, delivered by a quartet of players of faultless intonation, unanimity and blend.” – BBC Music Magazine String Quartets Opp 71 & 74 CDA68230: “There are moments where it’s really stunning and I don’t think it could have been done quite so well in any other way…wonderful stuff.” – BBC Record Review