Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 4-6

The gut strings and the lack of vibrato make for a very clean and crisp sound, which helps delineate each of the instruments, especially the cello, which makes so much more of an impact as an independent voice than in the Kodály. The Chiaroscuro Quartet seem to be redefining what we should expect from quartets from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. - Musicweb (BIS)