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Cuarteto Casals - Mozart's Haydn Quartets

Cuarteto Casals in a concert given at Wigmore Hall, London. Mozart: String Quartet in B flat, K458 'Hunt'; String Quartet in A, K464; String Quartet in C, K465 'Dissonance'.

In the second of two concerts at London's Wigmore Hall featuring the six String Quartets Mozart dedicated to his friend Haydn, the Cuarteto Casals play the Quartets in B flat major K458, A major K464 and C major K465.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Mozart: String Quartet in B flat, K458 (Hunt)
Mozart: String Quartet in A, K464

8.15: Interval.

8.35: Mozart: String Quartet in C, K465 (Dissonance)

Recorded at Wigmore Hall on 8 January 2016

The six string quartets that Mozart composed in the first half of the 1780s and dedicated to his friend Haydn were his reaction to the new and sophisticated musical environment he had encountered after moving from Salzburg to Vienna in 1781, and to his growing acquaintance with, and admiration for, the quartet masterpieces of Haydn himself. The Cuarteto Casals, from Spain, have been performing all six works over two concerts at Wigmore Hall and end tonight with the sunny B flat major K458 (sometimes known as the Hunt), the A major K464 (later to be a model for Beethoven's own A major Quartet), and the C major K465 (whose strange, harmonically searching introduction has brought it the nickname 'Dissonance').

After tonight's concert there's a chance to hear works performed during a recent concert that surveyed music written and performed in Terezin and the Warsaw Ghetto - Music on the Brink of Destruction.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Mon 16 Jan 2017 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      String Quartet in B flat, K458 (Hunt)

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      String Quartet in A, K464

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.

  • Interval

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Wind Serenade in B flat, K361 (3rd and 4th movements)

      Ensemble: Budapester Bläserensemble. Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis.

  • Part 2

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      String Quartet in C, K465 (Dissonance)

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.

    • Joseph Haydn

      String Quartet in E flat, Op 33 No 2 (Joke) (2nd movement)

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.

  • Post-concert: Music on the Brink of Destruction

    • Ayznshtat

      Cantata: Chad Gadya

      Performer: Benjamin Nabarro. Performer: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Performer: Gemma Rosefield. Choir: Clothworkers consort of Leeds. Conductor: Stephen muir.

    • Anonymous

      Anu Ma'amin

      Choir: Clothworkers consort of Leeds. Conductor: Stephen muir.

    • Beyglman

      Nit kayn rozhinkes, nit kayn mendlen

      Choir: Clothworkers consort of Leeds. Conductor: Stephen muir.

    • Pokrass

      Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg

      Performer: Vera Mullerova. Choir: Clothworkers consort of Leeds. Conductor: Stephen muir.

    • Hans Krása

      Passacaglia and Fugue for String Trio

      Performer: Benjamin Nabarro. Performer: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Performer: Gemma Rosefield.

Broadcast

  • Mon 16 Jan 2017 19:30
    BBC Radio 3