Mozart Quartets

Quatuor Van Kuijk - Mozart: Quartets K.387 & 421; Divertimento K.138 (2019)

Quatuor Van Kuijk - Mozart: Quartets K.387 & 421; Divertimento K.138 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 67:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | ALPHA551 | Recorded: 2019

This recording is the second part of an eventual triptych that will contain the six string quartets dedicated to Haydn: no.14 in G major, K387, the first of them, was composed in 1782, when Mozart had just arrived on the Viennese musical scene; no.15 in D minor K421, the second, is the only one in the minor mode and was completed in 1783 while his wife Constanze was in labour – she related that the rising intervals of the second movement recalled her cries from the room next door as he composed.
Doric String Quartet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - The Prussian Quartets (2021)

Doric String Quartet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - The Prussian Quartets (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 411 Mb | Total time: 90:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 20249(2) | Recorded: 2020

Having concluded its Haydn cycle, the Doric String Quartet plunges into Mozart, beginning late in the composer's career with the three so-called "Prussian" string quartets. These are noted for having been written at the behest of a cello-playing nobleman, for whom Mozart wrote especially elaborate cello parts. Those are placed in the service of dense contrapuntal webs that pose unusual challenges for the performers. Should these quartets be severe? Light-hearted? There is quite a range, probably more than for the other Mozart quartets.
Paul Badura-Skoda, Quatuor Festetics - Mozart: Piano Quartets (1993)

Paul Badura-Skoda, Quatuor Festetics - Mozart: Piano Quartets (1993)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:15 | 282 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Arcana | Catalog: 1007

This may well be the most fantastic recording I’ve ever heard of Mozart’s two piano quartets, and coming from someone who prefers his Mozart on modern instruments and has railed regularly against period instruments in music of this vintage, this is beyond high praise; it borders on glorification. Both the Quatuor Festetics, which began as a Read more Sturm und Drang of the G-Minor Quartet’s resolute and deeply tragic first movement. The instrument, of course, postdates though not by much the year in which the piece was written.
Emerson String Quartet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Prussian Quartets (2011)

Emerson String Quartet - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Prussian Quartets (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 74:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88697935982 | Recorded: 2011

The Emerson String Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets as musicians of unrivalled eminence with an incomparable list of great recordings over three decades. For its debut on Sony Classical, the Quartet has selected Mozart’s last three string quartets, the “Prussian” quartets. Having recorded Mozart's six "Haydn Quartets" as well as the flute quartets, the Emersons have long desired to add more Mozart to their discography. This new album sees them recording Mozart quartets for the first time in 20 years.
Gidon Kremer, Irena Grafenauer, Veronika Hagen, Clemens Hagen - Mozart: Quartets (1995)

Gidon Kremer, Irena Grafenauer, Veronika Hagen, Clemens Hagen - Mozart: Quartets (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:10 | 267 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SK 66 240

Though Mozart claimed to dislike the flute, he wrote for it with skill and these quartets, written between 1777 and 1787, are not pot-boilers – pace the late Hans Keller, who wrote that they “show Mozart’s hate for the instrument”, but didn’t bother to explain how. These players, two from the Hagen Quartet, are big names, Gidon Kremer’s not least, and play well as an ensemble, the excellent flautist performing with authority but not overbearingly. Indeed, they give the music love, which entirely redeems some inevitable conventionalities, as for example in the C major with its rather obvious melody and harmony – even Mozart didn’t write a towering masterpiece every day.
Quatuor Heutling, Heinz-Otto Graf - Mozart: Les Quatuors à cordes, Les Quintettes à cordes [8CDs] (1997)

Quatuor Heutling, Heinz-Otto Graf - Mozart: Les Quatuors à cordes, Les Quintettes à cordes (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2,79 Gb | Total time: 10:00:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics ‎| 5 72186 2 | Recorded: 1967, 1968

These quartets were recorded in sumptuous sound from December 1967 to the middle of ’68. Remastering can lead to shrillness which undermines intonation – but not here. This sounds fabulous above the stave.
Quatuor Van Kuijk - Mozart: Quartets K.387, K.421 & Divertimento K.138 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Quatuor Van Kuijk - Mozart: Quartets K.387, K.421 & Divertimento K.138 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 67:17 minutes | 1.17 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

After a first disc devoted to Mozart quartets (awarded a ‘Choc de Classica’ and a 'Diapason Découverte’), a second to French music (Debussy, Ravel and Chausson) and a third to two quartets by Schubert, nos.10 and 14 (the mythical Death and the Maiden), the group founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk returns to its first love by recording more Mozart.
Quatuor Van Kuijk - Mozart: Quartets K.387, K.421 & Divertimento K.138 (2019)

Quatuor Van Kuijk - Mozart: Quartets K.387, K.421 & Divertimento K.138 (2019)
FLAC tracks | 67:17 | 322 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha

After a first disc devoted to Mozart quartets (awarded a ‘Choc de Classica’ and a 'Diapason Découverte’), a second to French music (Debussy, Ravel and Chausson) and a third to two quartets by Schubert, nos.10 and 14 (the mythical Death and the Maiden), the group founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk returns to its first love by recording more Mozart.
This recording is the second part of an eventual triptych that will contain the six string quartets dedicated to Haydn: no.14 in G major, K387, the first of them, was composed in 1782, when Mozart had just arrived on the Viennese musical scene; no.15 in D minor K421, the second, is the only one in the minor mode and was completed in 1783 while his wife Constanze was in labour – she related that the rising intervals of the second movement recalled her cries from the room next door as he composed.

Quartetto Italiano - Mozart: Complete String Quartets (2013)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at April 20, 2023
Quartetto Italiano - Mozart: Complete String Quartets (2013)

Quartetto Italiano - Mozart: Complete String Quartets (2013)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 07:54:36 | 2,71 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 478 5555

This series of performances dates from between 1966 (when the six quartets Nos. 14-19 dedicated to Haydn were recorded) to 1973 and was rightly saluted on its completion as a fine achievement. The playing of the Quartetto Italiano has a freshness, range and subtlety that vividly realizes the music in all its variety, while technical problems seem to have been solved so that the music-making can be both spontaneous-sounding and thoughtful throughout.
Alban Berg Quartett - Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 18 & 19 (1989) [2010, Japan HQCD, TOCE-91034]

Alban Berg Quartett - Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 18 & 19 (1989)
Classical | EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log | MP3 CBR 320Kbps | 8 Tracks
EMI Music Japan | TOCE-91034 | HQCD | ~275 + 162 Mb
Scans(jpg 300dpi) Included | Scans(png, 600dpi) -> 446 Mb