Browse: Haydn - String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 in D major 'The Lark'

This is domestic music, after all, and perhaps a certain amount of understatement actually enhances the boldness of Haydn’s invention. Hyperion’s recorded sound captures that small-room acoustic... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

These are performances that take you inside the music, so that it’s almost possible to hear them with a performer’s ear and experience the delight as the notes leap off the page and into life... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The so-called Lark (No 5), with its soaring opening melody and moto perpetuo finale, is perhaps the most immediately fetching of all Haydn's quartets. But No 6 is at least as fine, with its intimate... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…