Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 2

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No quartet in my experience has employed such a wide range of colour and dynamics in this music, often with revelatory results…the Doric's daring, imaginative and technically superb performances... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…

Release Date: 29th Jan 2016
Catalogue No: CHAN10886(2)
Label: Chandos
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

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Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76 No. 1, Hob. III: 75

Work length24:35

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 12-13 July 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length8:43

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II. Adagio sostenuto

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III. Menuet. Presto

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IV. Finale. Allegro ma non troppo

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Haydn: String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76 No. 2, Hob. III: 76, "Quinten"

Work length22:52

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 26-28 July 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro

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II. Andante o più tosto allegretto

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III. Menuet.

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IV. Finale. Vivace assai

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Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76 No. 3, Hob. III: 77, "Kaiser"

Work length29:09

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 26-28 July 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro

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II. Poco adagio. Cantabile

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III. Menuet. Allegro

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IV. Finale. Presto

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Haydn: String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 76 No. 4, Hob. III: 78, "Sonnenaufgang"

Work length25:20

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 26-28 July 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro con spirito

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II. Adagio

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III. Menuet. Allegro

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IV. Finale. Allegro ma non troppo

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Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 No. 5, Hob. III: 79

Work length20:17

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 12-13 July 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegretto

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II. Largo. Cantabile e mesto

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III. Menuet. Allegro

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IV. Finale. Presto

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Haydn: String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76 No. 6, Hob. III: 80

Work length24:31

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Doric String Quartet
Recorded: 12-13 July 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Halll, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegretto

Track length7:04

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II. Fantasia. Adagio

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III. Menuet. Presto

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IV. Finale. Allegro spiritoso

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This is the second volume in the Doric String Quartet’s series devoted to Haydn’s String Quartets. Op. 76 turned out to be the last full set of six string quartets that Haydn was to compose. While they were written over the period 1796-97, they were not published until 1799. They had been commissioned by Count Joseph Erdödy, and such arrangements often entailed, as in this case, a period of time during which the works were reserved for that person’s exclusive use and enjoyment. The composition of Op. 76 coincided with Haydn’s work on Die Schöpfung and the first few of the six masses which Haydn wrote for the name day of Princess Maria Hermenegild Esterházy, and one can readily imagine that such compositional preoccupations rubbed off onto the composition of the quartets. However, that cannot be equated with a particular predominant ‘opus character’, a feature of some of Haydn’s previous sets. Rather – like Op. 20, also recently recorded by the Doric String Quartet (CHAN10831(2)) – the quartets seem to be most remarkable for their sheer variety. If there is anything they take from works such as Die Schöpfung, it is sheer plurality of stylistic references, a sense of traversing an entire world of musical possibilities.

Learned and rustic elements, for instance, are given exceptionally vivid treatment, and there are also passages of the greatest intimacy and grandeur.

Reviews

March 2016

No quartet in my experience has employed such a wide range of colour and dynamics in this music, often with revelatory results…the Doric's daring, imaginative and technically superb performances demand to be heard

October 2016

The Doric Quartet continues its Haydn series with a splendid account of the composer’s last great set of six.

31st January 2016

The brilliant Doric’s stance is unapologetically of the 19th rather than 18th century — slow movements tend towards the luxuriant, not just in timbre — yet always there’s a sense of clarity and precision. Their playing is hard to beat.

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