Párkányí Quartet Joseph Haydn

Along with the six quartets of Op. 64, the three string quartets of Haydn's Op. 54 belong to the group of works referred to as the Tost quartets. Op. 54 is not one of Haydn's more popular or frequently performed opuses.

Inventing and developing the genre of the string quartet, Joseph Haydn carried out the most original study of it, as evidenced by the opus. 33. The latter then appears as a real deepening of this universe in the making, because, as Bernard Fournier rightly notes, “at the same time that he was firmly establishing – but perhaps without fully realizing it – the genre of the quartet, Haydn was reflecting in Opus 20 about the means and possibilities of expressing musical thought, turned to seriousness and concentration, Opus 33, on the contrary, is liveliness and effervescence, which become the main aesthetic issue, even if, as in Opus 20, the discourse is far from being concentrated in one direction, but continues translate the nuances and diversity of thought. In an interpretive concept of absolute refinement, the Parcagni quartet offers us here the quartet Nos. 2, 3 and 5 of Opus 33. The flexibility of phrases, the purity of the melodic line, the warm colors, the lightness of the attacks bring their essential benefit.

Along with the six quartets of Op. 33, the three string quartets of Haydn's Op. 42 belong to the group of works referred to as the Tost quartets. Op. 42 is not one of Haydn's more popular or frequently performed opuses.