Haydn: String Quartets Op 50 – performed from the Artaria edition published in Vienna in December 1787
The London Haydn Quartet
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The London Haydn Quartet turns to the six Op 50 quartets. More serious—intellectually taut—than the Op 33 ‘Russian’ quartets which they follow in Haydn’s output, these six ‘Prussian’ quartets dazzle in such committed performances as these.