The London Haydn Quartet • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 9 (2CD) Instrument_Bass Viol violin/flute & bc

violin/flute & bc

plucked psalteries and harps

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The London Haydn Quartet • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 9 (2CD) Instrument_Bass Viol violin/flute & bcHaydns Op 9 quartets are commonly seen as his first mature set, written during the period when he emerged as an indisputably great composer. They have an amplitude, a seriousness of intent and an increasing mastery of rhetoric and thematic development that are a world away from his earlier works. They demonstrate the dazzling inventiveness and sense of symphonic structure which characterize Haydns greatest works. The London Haydn Quartet perform on