COMPOSERS: Haydn
LABELS: Warner
ALBUM TITLE: Haydn
WORKS: Late String Quartets Op. 76, Op. 77/1 & 2
PERFORMER: Alban Berg Quartet
CATALOGUE NO: 2564612345 (1993)
Big, projective readings, short on intimacy. The spacious acoustic emphasises the insistent brightness of the leader’s tone and his sometimes mannered phrasing. Bayan Northcott