String Quartet No.1 in G, K.80: 1. Adagio String Quartet No.1 in G, K.80: 2. Allegro String Quartet No.1 in G, K.80: 3. Menuetto String Quartet No.1 in G, K.80: 4 ...

String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: I. Adagio String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: II. Menuetto String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: III. Andante String Quartet No. 11 ...

Mozart complained that these three quartets – which may or may not have been commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia – were the product of ‘exhausting labour’. You’d never guess it from ...

‘Some of the most extraordinarily gawky music that [Mozart], so rarely in the slightest awkward, ever wrote.’ Thus Paul Griffiths (The String Quartet: A History; Thames and Hudson: 1983) on the six ...

No one could accuse the Cuarteto Casals of being reticent in these three of the six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, the works in G: K387, E flat K428 and C K465. They launch into every ...

Mozart is well known for his exploits in the fields of opera, symphony, concerto, mass, chamber and solo music – in fact, just about any classical discipline available at the time was mastered by him, ...

Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor is one of the richest works in the group of six that the composer famously dedicated to Haydn in 1785. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor was written by a ...

In our weekly Must-Have Mozart segment, Mozart authority Nicolas Kenyon joins Fred to talk about a Mozart String Quartet, K. 465, the so-called "Dissonance" Quartet. That title refers to something at ...

Cathy Fuller brings her talents as a pianist and educator to her work at WGBH Radio Boston, producing weekly live classical performances, hosting Classics in the Morning, coordinating programming, and ...

Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet in C major, so nicknamed because of the clashing harmonies in the slow introduction, takes top billing here, but it is the D minor, also from the “Haydn” set, that leaps ...