report on Mozart's Early String Quartets (Harmonia Mundi) is a comprehensive recording project that captures the composer's formative years in the genre, specifically works written between 1770 and 1773. Album Overview Release Date: October 27, 2005. Label: Harmonia Mundi (Catalogue No. HMI 987060.62).
A clear, bright tone with minimal use of vibrato to avoid over-romanticizing the early classical style. Cuarteto Casals - Mozart - Early String Quartet...
Reviewers from Gramophone praised the quartet's ability to adapt their style to the teenage Mozart, highlighting the "unusual musical insight" and lack of sentimentality. report on Mozart's Early String Quartets (Harmonia Mundi)
The most significant work in the early set, featuring a complex closing fugue. HMI 987060
Critics at Classics Today were much harsher, describing the approach as having "clunky phrasing" and "minimal vibrato" that made for a "real chore" to hear, particularly in the D minor quartet K. 173. Track Highlights Notable Features Quartet No. 1 in G, K. 80
The ensemble adopted a for these teenage works, marked by:
Mozart's very first quartet, featuring a prominent Rondeau finale.
