Mozart: Quartets K.387, K.421 & Divertimento K.138 Classical Alpha

Mozart: Quartets K.387, K.421 & Divertimento K.138

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AJ 0551

Mozart: Quartets K.387, K.421 & Divertimento K.138

Label Catalogue Number:
Alpha 551

Running Time: 67:23

Release Date: August 2019

Genre:
Classical

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After a first disc devoted to Mozart quartets (awarded a ‘Choc de Classica’ and a ‘Diapason Découvert’), a second to French music (Debussy, Ravel and Chausson) and a third to two quartets by Schubert, nos 10 and 14 (the mythical Death and the Maiden), the group founded by Nicholas Van Kuijk returns to its first love by recording more Mozart.

This recording is the second part of an eventual triptych that will contain the sic string quartets dedicated to Haydn no 14 in G major, K387, the first of them, was composed in 1782, when Mozart had just arrived on the Viennese musical scene; no 15 in D minor K421, the second is the only one in the minor mode and was completed in 1783 while his wife Constanze was in labour – she related that the rising intervals of the second movement recalled her cried from the room next door as he composed.

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“The Van Kuijk Quartet is performing an early Divertimento, the third, and two mature quartets. Their reading of these three works can confidently be described as successful, since the music’s lovely and charming character never hides the compositional qualities. In the two quartets that open the group of six works dedicated to Haydn, the Quartet’s playing is delicate and subtle, and the unagitated approach is constantly radiating joy and vitality. The quartet in G minor is very touching. “ *****

Uwe Krusch – Pizzicato.lu – 27 November 2019

***** Coup de cœur

Fabienne Bouvet - Classica magazine (France) - December 2019 - January 2020

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