182 Haydn: String Quartets Vol 13 of 14 op. 76, nos. 1- 6

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“(…) you will hear these performances in astonishing sound. Ordinarily, a string quartet is seated in more or less of a semicircle, starting with the first violin on the audience’s left, and continuing in a clockwise direction with the second violin, viola, and cello. But the seating here is different, and it really comes out in the recordings. The semicircle begins, as usual, with the first violin on the left, but immediately to his left is the cello, then continuing clockwise with the viola and the second violin. This presents these works in a quite different perspective from how we’re used to hearing them. (…)” Fanfare

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