Haydn: String Quartets Op. 20 Nos. 2,5 & 6

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Catalogue No: CDDCA1057
Label: ASV
Length: 66 minutes

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Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 20 No. 2 in C Major

Work length22:36

Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Robin Ireland (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1998-06-11
Recording Venue: Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, Yorkshire

1. Moderato

Track length9:37

2. Capriccio (Adagio)

Track length5:50

3. Menuet (Allegretto)

Track length3:31

4. Fuga a 4 soggetti (Allegro)

Track length3:38

Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 20 No. 5 in F minor

Work length24:38

Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Robin Ireland (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1998-06-11
Recording Venue: Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, Yorkshire

1. Moderato

Track length10:52

2. Menuet

Track length5:10

3. Adagio

Track length5:43

4. Fuga a 2 soggetti

Track length2:53

Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 20 No. 6 in A Major

Work length19:08

Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Robin Ireland (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1998-06-11
Recording Venue: Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, Yorkshire

1. Allegro di molto e scherzando

Track length8:08

2. Adagio

Track length5:56

3. Menuet

Track length2:11

4. Fuga a 3 soggetti (Allegro)

Track length2:53

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The sheer zest, colour and sensitivity of The Lindsays make it for me the outstanding ensemble in this repertoire

2010

The Lindsays are Haydn interpreters of rare understanding and communicative flair. Their characterisation is bold and decisive, enhanced by a scrupulous observation of the composer's expression and dynamic markings. Faster movements tend to be more urgent, less ruminative, than those from the Quatuor Mosaïques.
The zingarese cross-rhythms of No 4's Minuet have an abrasive edge, and the Presto e scherzando finale is no mere frolic in The Lindsays' hands – its wit can scathe and sting, and the closing theme, with its gypsy acciaccaturas, has an almost manic insistence. Elsewhere they bring an ideal warmth and lyricism to the opening movement of No 1, characteristically phrasing in long, eloquent spans, and a quixotic energy to the outer movements of the G minor, No 3, where the Quatuor Mosaïques is broader and tougher. In the Minuet The Lindsays' singing line and flexibility of pulse realise to the full Haydn's searching harmonic progressions; and the lulling E flat Trio is exquisitely floated.
Each of the slow movements reveals dedication and profound identification. The players vindicate their dangerously slow tempo in the sublime Affettuoso e sostenuto of No 1 with the breadth and intensity of their phrasing, subtlety of colour and feeling for harmonic flux. As ever, the occasional moment of impure intonation is a small price to pay for performances of such colour, character and spontaneity.
The Lindsays observe all the important marked repeats and the recording is vivid and truthful. Characterisation of the sharply contrasted Nos 2, 5 and 6 is invariably vivid, phrasing is alive and inventive, and the players combine a scrupulous care for Haydn's dynamic and expression markings with a strong feeling for the music's larger contours.

Haydn: String Quartets Op. 20 Nos. 2,5 & 6

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