{"product_id":"italian-quartet-haydn-mozart-string-quartets-194852-pacm077","title":"ITALIAN QUARTET Haydn \u0026 Mozart String Quartets (1948\/52) - PACM077","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\"\u003e\u003cb data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D771120\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eHAYDN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet in G major, Op. 77, No. 1, Hob III:81\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D771840\"\u003e\u003cb data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D771120\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMOZART \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet No. 2 in D major, K155 (K134a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eHAYDN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eString Quartet in E flat major, Op. 64, No. 6, Hob III:64\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D771840\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D772E90\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D7708D0\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D772E90\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 1952 \u0026amp; 1948\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 50:55\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D7708D0\"\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D775340\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D775470\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eQuartetto Italiano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000001BABB630\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000001BABB630\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fGramophone Historic Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fHaydn Quartet Op 64 No 4578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\"I played this set immediately after the Schubert\n(reviewed elsewhere) and, putting them side by side, one cannot help\nreflecting, what an astonishing expansion took place in music in so\nshort a time: an enormous expansion of range of mood—and of sheer size\n(Schubert's 10 sides to Haydn's 4). But im-mediately comes a second\nthought. Expansion, yes: Progress, no. This Haydn is perfection of its\nkind. String quartet lovers are in luck this month for here is another\nmore than ordinarily good performance. It is lovely Haydn playing, above\nall in the last two movements, and throughout it has moment after\nmoment when the charm of style cannot fail to enchant.\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003eThere is just one phrase which I think over-steps\nthe bounds of ciassical style—if you have a score you can find it in\nthe slow movement, just before the minor section and again just before\nthe end. (Bars with a sf.) But this is nothing to set against such\nexcellent interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003eAs to balance and recording, also good, though I\ndo not find the cello line entirely satisfactory. I am not sure if the\nplayer has perhaps a rather tubby tone or whether the recorders might\nhave given us a little more of him—possibly both. At any rate, in the\nmiddle, minor, section of the slow movement I needed my score to know\nthat there is a bass line of B flats for the first few bars: and\nelsewhere I found his line not consistently telling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003eYet this is a very good set of records and another work which you should at least hear and judge for yourself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eT. H., The Gramophone, December 1949\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM077.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent Mozart and Haydn from one of the great quartets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuartetto Italiano's sound superbly enhanced in these new 32-bit XR transfers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe recordings presented here span the end of the 78rpm\nera and the start of the LP era - the 1952 recordings were given\nstandard 78rpm matrix numbers (IAR551-2 and IAR563-68) though is it\nuncertain whether they were ever issued on 78s, and would have been\nrecorded onto tape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe earlier recording, 1948's Haydn E flat Quartet, most\ncertainly was issued on 78s (AK2159-60) and must have been among\nDecca's last recordings made direct to disc - this was clearly apparent\nwhen restoring the recording from their own LP transfer, in this case a\nmint ten-inch 33rpm German pressing, where remnants of surface noise and\nswish clearly indicated original 78rpm rotation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso appreciable is the decrease in general surface\nnoise with the advent of tape, coupled with increased general recording\nfidelity between 1948 and 1952. That said, each of these recordings has\nbenefited greatly from 32-bit XR remastering, in which I've been able to\nbring out a great deal of clarity and fine detail, whilst retaining an\nopen, organic sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was also able to enhance the originally rather dry\nsound of the Santa Cecilia recordings, using precisely mapped acoustic\nmodels of the hall in which the recordings were made, to \"place the\nlistener\" in the centre of the seventh row of the auditorium - thus\nallowing the sound of the hall itself to round out the tone of the\nquartet in a pleasing and entirely authentic manner.\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHADYN \u003c\/b\u003eString Quartet in G major, Op. 77, No. 1, Hob III:81\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMOZART \u003c\/b\u003eString Quartet No. 2 in D major, K155 (K134a)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecording producers: Victor Olof \u0026amp; 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