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Quatuor Mosaïques
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The Quatuor Mosaïques is an Austrian string quartet, founded in 1987 by four members of the Concentus Musicus Wien, playing on historical musical instruments. They specialize in music of the 18th century and their Haydn recordings have received critical acclaim, including several Gramophone Awards. The three Austrian musicians and the French cellist Christophe Coin got to know each other in Vienna as members of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus. With their shared experiences as a starting point, they decided to form a classical string quartet playing on period instruments. The primary aim was not to create the sort of ‘authenticity’ that belongs in museums, but rather to ensure in their work a living link to the great European quartet tradition. Hence an essential inspiration for the group was the Végh Quartet, of which Erich Höbarth had been a member for its last three years. The ultimate objective of each interpretation must be to reveal the inner spiritual wealth of the music: ‘In a mosaic, every detail is seen to have been brilliantly thought out, yet the eye is also capable of apprehending the picture as a whole. It is the same with music: you have to work on the details, then you have to create the best possible listening conditions, and get the distance just right so that the listener can see how the elements have been put together, and at the same time get a complete view of the work of art.’ (Christophe Coin) The Quatuor Mosaïques is regularly described as o
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String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: II. Presto
1,0982Quartet in A major
1253Quartet in A major (Menuetto)
1084String Quartet opus 18, n° 1 - I. Allegro con Brio
745Dissonance Quartet in C major (Adagio, Allegro)
726String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: I. Maestoso - Allegro
687String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: IV. Finale. Allegro
668String Quartet opus 18, n° 1 - II. Adagio Affettuoso ed Appassionato
639Dissonance Quartet in C major - Adagio, Allegro
6210Quartet in A major - Allegro
57albums
Beethoven: The Late Quartets, Op. 127 - 135
Hyacinthe & Louis-Emmanuel Jadin: Trois quatuors (Quatuor d'instruments Nicolas Lambert, Maître-Luthier à Paris)
Mozart: Quatuors dédiés à Haydn & "Les Dissonances"
Jadin: Quatuors
Beethoven (String Quartets Op. 18 n°2 & 3)
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The Late Quartets
Beethoven (String Quartets op.18, n°1 & 4)
Beethoven
Haydn: 3 Late String Quartets, Op. 77
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76
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Mozart: Quatuors dédiés à Haydn & "Les Dissonances"
Mozart: Quatuors, K. 499 & K. 589