A refreshing performance of Haydn's Str Qt in D, Op76 no 5 by the Jerusalem String Quartet on today's (8 Dec) Classical Collection and the Largo seems to make the world stand still. A further Haydn bonus on A on 3 with Str Qt in D, Op64 No 5 (Lark), from the Chiaroscuro Quartet, left me wanting more, so I opted for The Haydn Project by the Emerson String Quartet on a 2 CD DG set, (2001). I smiled at Lawrence Dutton's viola (alto), liner comment:
"I remember when I was a student, banging out with people
who were into chamber music, and we used to get together
and read chamber music, sometimes the whole night. We'd
read tons and tons of Haydn Quartets - we really played them
in the spirit they were first intended - and just be astonished
by the wit and the humor and all the incredible emotions."
Well said.
"I remember when I was a student, banging out with people
who were into chamber music, and we used to get together
and read chamber music, sometimes the whole night. We'd
read tons and tons of Haydn Quartets - we really played them
in the spirit they were first intended - and just be astonished
by the wit and the humor and all the incredible emotions."
Well said.
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