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’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 ...
The Jerusalem Quartet adopts what you might call a full-on approach to Mozart. The tone is luscious and anything but vibrato shy. The speeds are unpressured, and the players like to convey the way ...