The London Haydn Quartet perform the String Quartets Op.76, the summit of his quartet-writing, and of the classical string quartet medium itself. The "Emperor", "Fifths" and "Sunrise" may be the best known of the six - as so often with those works by Haydn which have nicknames - but the others are every bit their equal.
REVIEW:
Here we have some of the greatest, most formally innovative, inventive, and deeply felt string quartets ever composed, delivered by a quartet of players of faultless intonation, unanimity, and blend, whose approach to Haydn has matured through eight much-praised previous albums of his quartets, and who have evidently prepared the present set with minute care.
