Haydn: String Quartets, Opp. 20 & 33; The Seven Last Words of Our Savior [Box set]

Quatuor Mosaïques (Artist), Franz Joseph Haydn (Composer), Erich Höbarth (Performer), Andrea Bischof (Performer), Anita Mitterer (Performer), Christophe Coin (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

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• Performer: Erich Höbarth, Andrea Bischof, Anita Mitterer, Christophe Coin
• Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
• Audio CD (August 25, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Box set
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• Label: Naive
• ASIN: B001F0JZZU
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,842 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haydn for the Masses (of amateur quartet players), January 25, 2010

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Ralph A. Jaxtheimer (Lynchburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haydn: String Quartets, Opp. 20 & 33; The Seven Last Words of Our Savior (Audio CD)

Many of us own pieces of Haydn's string quartet writings: favorites or collections in score, parts and/or recorded formats. I have found it daunting to complete the set of recordings, expensive and piecemeal and finally never completed. The
Quatuor Mosaiques on the Naive label have combined the complete string quartets in several boxed groupings for what I think is a pretty reasonable price (or set of prices). The group is a "period" ensemble with a nice palette of colors and a contemporary sensibility about historical style. They don't hit any grand slam home runs, but they make solid musical contact on every work. And you can really get a sense of the trajectory of H's quartet concepts. For me, a pretty happy couple hundred bucks worth of sound.