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Haydn: String Quartets Op. 42, 77 & Seven Last Words

7/28/2023, 21 Tracks, 2:26:31

Featuring

  • Catherine Manson
  • Michael Gurevich
  • John Crockatt
  • Jonathan Manson
  • London Haydn Quartet
  • Joseph Haydn

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Composition History

Haydn's Op. 33 string quartets, published in 1782, created an international sensation with their sophisticated conversational textures and fusion of light tunes with taut motivic development.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Op. 42 quartet may contain music from a lost or abandoned Spanish commission for three 'very short' quartets, which Haydn mentioned in an April 1784 letter.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Haydn was especially proud of The Seven Last Words, believing it could 'arouse the deepest impression on the soul of even the most naïve person'.

Source: Booklet

Cultural Impact

Haydn's string quartet arrangement of The Seven Last Words became far more popular than its orchestral original, and he also authorized a keyboard arrangement.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Haydn composed The Seven Last Words of Christ for a priest in Cádiz, Spain, to be performed at an annual Good Friday Passion celebration in 1787.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The London Haydn Quartet, founded in 2000, is one of the world's leading period-instrument string quartets and has received international critical acclaim for its recordings of Haydn's complete quartets.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Op. 77 quartets, dedicated to the music-loving aristocrat Prince Lobkowitz, were Haydn's last completed works in the string quartet medium, finished in 1799 but published in 1802.

Source: Booklet

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