Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Cuarteto Casals - Mozart's Haydn Quartets

From Wigmore Hall in London, a concert in which Cuarteto Casals perform string quartets Mozart dedicated to Haydn. With Quartets in G, K387; in D minor, K421; in E flat, K428.

In the first 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 G K387, D minor K421 and E flat K428.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Mozart: String Quartet in G, K387
Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K421

8.15: Interval.

8.35: Mozart: String Quartet in E flat, K428

Recorded at Wigmore Hall on 7 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, perform all six works over two concerts at Wigmore Hall starting tonight with the G major (K387) with its brilliant contrapuntal finale, the tragically brooding D minor (K421), and the confident E flat, K428.

The second concert, featuring the quartets K458, K464 and K466, will be broadcast on Tuesday 17 January.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 12 Jan 2017 19:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Trinity College, Cambridge: Bach's B Minor Mass

Next

麻豆社 Philharmonic - Ravel, Shostakovich

See all episodes from Radio 3 in Concert

Recipes

See all recipes from Cuarteto Casals - Mozart's Haydn Quartets

Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      String Quartet in G, K387

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      String Quartet in D minor, K421

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.

  • Interval

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Wind Serenade in E flat, K375 (2nd, 3rd and 4th movements)

      Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble.

  • Part 2

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      String Quartet in E flat, K428

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.

    • Joseph Haydn

      String Quartet in C, Op 33 No 3 (Bird) (4th movement)

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.

  • Post-concert

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Serenade to Music

      Performer: Lorna Anderson.

    • Robert Schumann

      Konzertst眉ck for four horns and orchestra, Op 86

      Performer: Dale Clevenger. Performer: Richard Oldberg. Performer: Thomas Howell. Performer: Norman Schweikert. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
      • Decca Eloquence.

    • Johannes Brahms

      Am Sonntag Morgen, Op.49 no.1

      Singer: Kate Royal. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
      • A Lesson in Love: Kate Royal/Malcolm Martineau.
      • EMI Classics.
      • 21.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 Jan 2017 19:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3