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Haydn - String Quartets Vol.11: Op.76 | Brilliant Classics 93934

Haydn - String Quartets Vol.11: Op.76

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93934

Barcode: 5028421939346

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 15th June 2009

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Contents

Artists

Buchberger Quartet

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

String Quartets (6), op.76

Artists

Buchberger Quartet

About

Volume 11 in the Buchberger Quartet’s cycle of the complete Haydn quartets.

Haydn’s six quartets published as his Op.76 in 1799, and composed three years earlier, astonished listeners and commentators alike. How on earth could a man advanced in years keep producing such extraordinary music and show no sign of his creative faculties diminishing? No less a person than Charles Burney was taken aback by the stunning originality and daring of the Op.76 quartets. Writing to Haydn in 1799 he said ‘I’ve never received more pleasure from instrumental music: they are full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects, and seem the production, not of a sublime genius who has written so much and so well already, but of one of highly-cultivated talents, who had expended none of his fire before.

There was no doubt that Haydn had bettered his previous quartets. New in the Op.76 was the appearance of a distinctly Beethovenian scherzo. It is perhaps worth noting that just before Haydn completed these quartets, Beethoven had been his unruly pupil. The young man’s Op.1 trios, Op.18 quartets, and maybe the early drafts of the 1st Symphony, would have been known to Haydn, and, ever curious to develop new ideas, Haydn would have been attracted to the scherzo.

The remarkable vision and scope of these quartets has placed them firmly among the greatest in the repertoire. The public has also embraced them, and the nicknames of some of them will be instantly recognisable to listeners – ‘Fifths’, ‘Emperor’ and ‘Sunrise’. The ‘Sunrise’ No.4, has been described by H.C. Robbins Landon as having one ‘of the greatest openings in chamber music’, and the Fantasia slow movement of No.6 as ’one of the boldest and most original movements in the whole eighteenth century’.

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