Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 16 and 19 & Divertimento, K. 13

This release is intended to forge a link between Mozart's chamber music and operas. It combines a divertimento by the young Mozart of 1772 with two mature quartets composed around 1782. The young quartet showcasing these works is Quatuor Van Kuijk, who has already become an international prize-winner in their short lifespan. Nowhere else in Mozart's quartets do theatre and counterpoint form such a happy pairing. Praised by The Guardian for its "style, energy and a sense of risk."