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Mozart - Dissonances (String Quartets) | Virgin 0709222

Mozart - Dissonances (String Quartets)

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Label: Virgin

Cat No: 0709222

Barcode: 5099907092220

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 12th September 2011

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The Ebène Quartet’s fourth Virgin Classics release brings works that lie close to the origins of string-quartet writing – two of Mozart’s so-called ‘Haydn Quartets’. “It’s such amazing music, so rich and filled with such subtlety; completely unpretentious, yet of such genius”, says the Ebène’s first violin, Pierre Colombet.

Composed in 1785, the set of six quartets was dedicated by Mozart to his friend and mentor Haydn, the acknowledged ‘father’ of the string quartet. The most famous of the set is the quartet in C major, KV 465, the ‘Dissonance’. It opens with a mysterious introduction, with layered harmonies creating the dissonance that gives the quartet its distinctive nickname. It is coupled with the quartet in D minor, KV 421 and the Divertimento in F major KV 138, written when Mozart was a teenager.

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