Haydn, Cuarteto Casals - String Quartets Op. 33 mp3 flac download

The Op. 33 String Quartets were written by Joseph Haydn in the summer and Autumn of 1781 for the Viennese publisher Artaria. This set of quartets has several nicknames, the most common of which is the "Russian" quartets, because Haydn dedicated the quartets to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia and many (if not all) of the quartets were premiered on Christmas Day, 1781, at the Viennese apartment of the Duke's wife, the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna.

Haydn: String Quartets O. 3. Includes FREE MP3 version of this album. For their third Onyx Classics release, the great Borodin Quartet play Haydn s six String Quartets of O. 3, nicknamed the Russian quartets. Written between 1778 and 1781, they represent an important and influential shift in style from the flamboyant O. 0 set written nearly ten years earlier. Intimate and subtle, these ground- breaking quartets are the lightest and most humorous of all his mature quartets.

Haydn: String Quartets Op. 33. Harmonia Mundi 296202223. Haydn: String Quartets Op. Harmonia Mundi HMG 50202223.

Haydn's six Op 33 quartets are more celebrated as the works that stimulated Mozart to compose his famous set of six (which he dedicated to Haydn) than they are for themselves. Yet, if they mostly lack the intensity of the best of Haydn's Op 20, or the transcendent greatness he achieved in Op 76 and Op 77, they richly repay performances as inventive and witty as these ones by the excellent Cuarteto Casals. The group's rhythmic vitality and dynamic range are a constant pleasure.

The Casals, formed in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid, presents the only three Arriaga quartets (in D minor, A major, and E-flat major) published during the ill-fated composer's short life. The Casals captures all the delicacy and beauty of these brilliant works, which show the influence of Cherubini and Rossini but reveal tantalizing hints of the romantic sentiment that would not sweep European music until several years after Arriaga's death. Strings Maazine, January 2004.

By Franz Joseph Haydn, Cuarteto Casals. 1. String Quartet, Op. 33/1: I. Allegro moderato. 2. 33/1: II. Scherzo. 33/1: III. Andante. 4. 33/1: IV. Finale. 5. 33/2, 'The Joke': I. Allegro moderato cantabile. 6. 33/2, 'The Joke': II. Listen to Haydn: String Quartets, O. 3 in full in the this site app. Play on this site.