After two widely acclaimed Haydn releases, the Jerusalem Quartet now turns to an exploration of Mozart and three distinct periods in his creative life
Winner of the BBC Music Magazine Award in 2012
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String Quartet No. 4 in C major, K157
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String Quartet No. 17 in B flat major, K458, ‘The Hunt’
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String Quartet No. 22 in B flat major, K589, ‘Prussian No. 2’
Harmonia Mundi
Catalog No.: HMC902076
Released: January 2011
After two widely acclaimed Haydn releases, the Jerusalem Quartet now turns to an exploration of Mozart and three distinct periods in his creative life.
Haydn is not totally absent from this recording, since the central quartet belongs to the glorious group of six that Mozart, now firmly established in Vienna, dedicated to his elder in 1785. Twelve years earlier, the teenage composer was still amusing himself with the Sammartinian model in the third of his ‘Milanese’ Quartets’, and four years after the ‘Haydn’ set, Mozart abandoned the divertimento style once and for all, presenting in the second of the ‘Prussian’ Quartets a score that radically renewed the practice of chamber music.