Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat, K428, etc.

Here's a fine performance of the great C major Quintet. The Lindsays take the first movement at a true Allegro, so that it bowls along in top gear, the details vivid and sharply etched. Much... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDDCA992
Label: ASV
Length: 66 minutes

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Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat, K428

Work length32:03

Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Robin Ireland (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1995-09-26
Recording Venue: All Saints' Church, Petersham, Surrey

1. Allegro non troppo

Track length10:10

2. Andante con moto

Track length10:18

3. Menuetto (Allegro)

Track length6:07

4. Allegro vivace

Track length5:28

Mozart: String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K515

Work length34:37

Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Louise Williams (viola), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Robin Ireland (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1996-07-04
Recording Venue: All Saints' Church, Petersham, Surrey

1. Allegro

Track length13:15

2. Menuetto (Allegretto)

Track length5:43

3. Andante

Track length8:13

4. Allegro

Track length7:26

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Here's a fine performance of the great C major Quintet. The Lindsays take the first movement at a true Allegro, so that it bowls along in top gear, the details vivid and sharply etched. Much of this grandest and most spacious movement in Mozart's chamber output is marked to be played softly: in the Lindsays' hands the wonderful counterpoint in the development section can be heard with exceptional clarity as the tension builds up, but not the dynamic. The Andante sounds the more touching for never being overplayed, and it's a special pleasure to hear how the most florid passages for first violin and first viola fit effortlessly into the rhythmic scheme. In the finale, Peter Cropper introduces some beautifully played portamentos in the main theme, and the whole movement sounds delightfully witty and happy. The E flat Quartet, K428, is cool and stylish, which suits this enigmatic work rather well. The Lindsays' way of using Mozart's marks of expression and articulation to make the music speak feels absolutely right, especially in their delicate, refined Andante, and it's good to hear the quartet played with all its repeats. The recording has a nice intimate quality.

This disc is charged with the pure passion of music-making

Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat, K428, etc.

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