Chiaroscuro Quartet -1-3 Streichquartette op.76 -BIS SACD+CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Streichquartett Nr. 75 G-Dur op. 76 Nr. 1 Hob. III:75

01. "1. Allegro con spirito"

02. "2. Adagio sostenuto"

03. "3. Menuett: Presto"

04. "4. Finale: Allegro ma non troppo"
Streichquartett Nr. 76 d-moll op. 76 Nr. 2 Hob. III:76 "Quinten-Quartett"

05. "1. Allegro"

06. "2. Andante o pi? tosto allegretto"

07. "3. Menuett: Allegro"

08. "4. Finale: Vivace assai"
Streichquartett Nr. 77 C-Dur op. 76 Nr. 3 Hob. III:77 "Kaiser-Quartett"

09. "1. Allegro"

10. "2. Poco adagio - Cantabile"

11. "3. Menuett: Allegro"

12. "4. Finale: Presto"

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Chiaroscuro Quartet

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String Quartets Op.76 1-3 by Leonard Bernstein, released 8 May 2020. This version of String Quartets Op.76 1-3 comes as a 1xCD. - CHIAROSCURO QUARTET

The Chiaroscuro Quartet made their first appearance on BIS with acclaimed recordings of Joseph Haydn's Sun Quartets, Op. 20, described in The Strad as 'period-instrument performances of the utmost subtlety and refinement'. The Op. 20 quartets are widely regarded as a milestone in the history of the genre. When Chiaroscuros now return to Haydn, it is with his last complete set of quartets, begun in 1796 when he was 64 years old. The Six String Quartets, Op. 76, form one of the most renowned of Haydn's sets of quartets and carry the stamp of their maker: No other set of eighteenth-century string quartets is so diverse, or so unconcerned with the norms of the time. In the words of Haydn's friend and contemporary Charles Burney 'they are full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects'. On the present disc, the first of two, we hear the first three quartets, including the 'Fifths' quartet (No. 2) so named after the falling perfect fifths with which it begins. The most famous of the set - and possibly of all Haydn quartets - is No. 3, however: the 'Emperor' quartet with it's second movement: a set of variations on the 'Kaiserlied' which Haydn had recently composed to the greater glory of the Austrian Emperor Franz II.

Recording: December 2017 at the Sendesaal, Bremen, Germany Issued in a cardboard gatefold sleeve, with separate 24-page booklet and the disc in a separate white paper sleeve Liner notes (© Richard Wigmore 2019) in English, German and French Disc rim text in English ? &© 2020, BIS Records AB, Åkersberga. Made in the EU (on gatefold back) Made in the EU by DADC (on disc rim text) TT: 70'54 Catalog numbers: ? BIS-2348 SACD on spine and website ? BIS-2348 | SACD on gatefold back and disc ? BIS-2348 on booklet p. 23 & back

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BISSACD-2348

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