report on Mozart's Early String Quartets (Harmonia Mundi) is a comprehensive recording project that captures the composer's formative years in the genre, specifically works written between 1770 and 1773. Album Overview Release Date: October 27, 2005. Label: Harmonia Mundi (Catalogue No. HMI 987060.62).
A clear, bright tone with minimal use of vibrato to avoid over-romanticizing the early classical style. Cuarteto Casals - Mozart - Early String Quartet...
The most significant work in the early set, featuring a complex closing fugue. report on Mozart's Early String Quartets (Harmonia Mundi)
Notably fast Andantes and finales that often "tear away" at top speed. HMI 987060
Reviewers from Gramophone praised the quartet's ability to adapt their style to the teenage Mozart, highlighting the "unusual musical insight" and lack of sentimentality.
The quartet used a matching set of classical-period bows for this recording, acquired through a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award. Critical Reception Reviews for this specific set were polarized: