The Lindsays - Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op. 33 Nos. 3, 5 & 6 (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 60:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ASV Digital | # CDDCA938 | Recorded: 1995
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 60:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ASV Digital | # CDDCA938 | Recorded: 1995
In their survey of Haydn's string quartets for ASV, the Lindsays have set about the business of restoring these Classical masterpieces to their proper place in the repertoire, with all their brilliant wit and brusqueness intact, and without undue sweetening or romanticizing. The point, it seems clear, is to bring Haydn out from under the familiar shadows of Mozart and Beethoven, and to render his quartets as the true models of quartet writing, not as light Rococo divertissements or tamer antecedents of greater works. The Lindsays are sharp in their characterizations of Op. 33, Nos. 3, 5, and 6, and their lean textures, crisp articulation, transparent repartee, and pungent attacks distinguish these performances from more commercially pretty or polished versions.