Haydn String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5
Schubert String Quartet in A minor (‘Rosamunde’)
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 (‘From My Life’)
We begin the series with an effervescent late Haydn gem and then plunge into the darker worlds of Schubert and Smetana. The Schubert ‘Rosamunde’ has long been a favourite in the repertoire and Smetana’s autobiographical First Quartet charts the progress of his life from carefree youth to a maturity when he was plagued (like Beethoven) by tinnitus.
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