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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...