Chiaroscuro Quartet - String Quartets 76 1-3 - SUPER-AUDIO CD

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The Chiaroscuro Quartet made their first appearance on BIS with acclaimed recordings of Joseph Haydn's Sun Quartets, Op. 20, described in The Strad as 'period-instrument performances of the utmost subtlety and refinement'. The Op. 20 quartets are widely regarded as a milestone in the history of the genre. When Chiaroscuros now return to Haydn, it is with his last complete set of quartets, begun in 1796 when he was 64 years old. The Six String Quartets, Op. 76, form one of the most renowned of Haydn's sets of quartets and carry the stamp of their maker No other set of eighteenth-century string quartets is so diverse, or so unconcerned with the norms of the time. In the words of Haydn's frien…