Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: VenEthos Ensemble
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Catalogue: A497
Release: 2022
Size: 1.56 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, KV 156: IIbis. Adagio (first version)
String Quartet No. 1 in G major, K80
02. I. Adagio
03. II. Allegro
04. III. Minuetto
05. Allegro
String Quartet No. 2 in D major, K155
06. I. Allegro
07. II. Andante
08. III. Molto Allegro
String Quartet No. 3 in G major, K156
09. I. Presto
10. II. Adagio
11. III. Tempo di Minuetto
CD 02
String Quartet No. 4 in C major, K157
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Presto
String Quartet No. 5 in F major, K158
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Andante un poco Allegretto
06. III. Tempo di Minuetto
String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, K159
07. I. Andante
08. II. Allegro
09. Allegro grazioso
String Quartet No. 7 in E flat major, K160
10. I. Allegro
11. II. Un poco Adagio
12. III. Presto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s six “Milanese” quartets constitute a milestone in his artistic activity. Written between Bolzano and Milan between 1772 and 1773, they came a few years after the Quartet K80/73f that he had composed in Lodi during his first Italian visit. More than that work, these six pieces – conceived before Mozart left the Milanese public with his third and last work for the Lombard capital, Lucio Silla K. 135 – constitute one of the first organic sets of string quartets ever conceived. Though based on the model of Haydn, they reveal Mozart’s modern spirit, capable of following a new path and enriching it with his own personal contribution. Thirty years after the first and only recording of these works on period instruments by the Festetics Quartet, here is the recording debut of a young Italian ensemble, with the bonus of the first ever historically informed recording of the Quartet K. 156’s original second movement.