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Doric String Quartet - Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op.20 (2014) 2CDs

Posted By: Designol

Date: 15 Apr 2025 17:25:56

Haydn’s six Op. 20 string quartets are milestones in the history of the genre. He wrote them in 1772 for performance by his colleagues at the Esterházy court and, unusually, not specifically for publication. Each one is a unique masterpiece and the set introduces compositional techniques that radically transformed the genre and shaped it for centuries to come. Haydn overturns conventional instrumental roles, crafts remarkably original colours and textures, and unlocks new expressive possibilities in these works which were crucial in establishing the reputation of purely instrumental music. The range within the quartets is kaleidoscopic. From the introspective, chorale-like slow movement of No. 1 via the terse and radical quartet No. 3 in G minor to the comic spirit of the fourth in D major, each of the quartets inhabits a distinct musical world. For many, this is some of the greatest music Haydn ever wrote.

Playing these seminal works is one of the world’s finest young ensembles, the Doric String Quartet. As well as having already produced a string of acclaimed recordings on Chandos, the group has been widely praised for its live performances of Haydn’s works. The Sunday Telegraph wrote that ‘Haydn and the Doric are a perfect match… Unequivocally, these were performances of terrific panache and perception, seeming to get right under the skin of Haydn’s creative genius’.

Papa Haydn. Is he, in today’s pejorative meaning, pretty close to the image of a simpleton? The Doric Quartet say differently; and to hear how, sample the first-movement Allegro con spirito of No 3, of music that lurches, hesitates and restarts, from musicians who feel a personal struggle portraying it through varied bowing and a state of tension that remains stretched even during silences. They confront the intractable; and exempt only the outer movements of this work from second-half repeats. Thus do unusual endings surprise when heard only once.

Thoughtfulness is uppermost. Allied to precision in articulation is a flexibility in the scansion and shaping of phrases, of notes timed through a remarkable understanding of rubato, of a range of expressive resilience that gives even the smallest of episodes in a long line their own character without distorting structure or disturbing flow, eg speed combining with jest in the Allegro di molto e scherzando of No 6. Stay to experience Haydn’s resourceful use of colour, the Minuet bright, the Trio – without second violin – slower and subdued, played sopra una corda (on one string), its ambience intensified by startlingly different tonal hues; which brings matters round to the nub of these works – the slow movements, be it the Affettuoso e sostenuto of No 1, the Capriccio of No 2 or the Adagio of No 5, each one divined to be of glowing or grave beauty. And this is Vol 1. Hold your breath for the rest.

Review by Nalen Anthoni, Gramophone

Joseph Haydn at Allmusic
Joseph Haydn at Wiki

Doric String Quartet at Allmusic
Doric String Quartet Website

Tracklist:

CD1:

Quartet in E flat major, Op.20 No.1
01. I. Allegro moderato (09:20)
02. II. Menuet e Trio. Un poco allegretto (03:47)
03. III. Affettuoso e sostenuto (08:35)
04. IV. Finale. Presto (03:45)

Quartet in C major, Op.20 No.2
05. I. Moderato (09:37)
06. II. Capriccio. Adagio - Segue subito il Menuet (06:45)
07. III. Menuet e Trio. Allegretto (03:34)
08. IV. Fuga a quattro soggetti (03:14)

Quartet in G minor, Op.20 No.3
09. I. Allegro con spirito (07:58)
10. II. Menuet e Trio. Allegretto (04:19)
11. III. Poco adagio (09:46)
12. IV. Finale. Allegro di molto (03:46)

CD2:

Quartet in D major, Op.20 No.4
01. I. Allegro di molto (11:00)
02. II. Un poco adagio e affettuoso (09:46)
03. III. Menuet alla Zingarese e Trio (01:41)
04. IV. Presto e scherzando (06:59)

Quartet in F minor, Op.20 No.5
05. I. Moderato (11:18)
06. II. Menuet e Trio (05:05)
07. III. Adagio (06:30)
08. IV. Finale. Fuga a due soggetti (02:46)

Quartet in A major, Op.20 No.6
09. I. Allegro di molto e scherzando (08:43)
10. II. Adagio (06:07)
11. III. Menuet e Trio (02:37)
12. IV. Fuga con tre soggetti. Allegro (02:55)

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